Tenth Revision Mortality Rates and Niosh Life Table Analysis

Tenth revision U.S. mortality rates for use with the NIOSH Life Table Analysis System.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to update rate files for the NIOSH Life Table Analysis System for Personal Computers (PC LTAS) reflecting the newly adopted tenth revision changes to the International Classification of Diseases. METHODS PC LTAS allows researchers to conduct comparative mortality and morbidity analyses for the purpose of identifying disease-exposure associations using...

Life table analysis of AIDS mortality.

The first study was a retrospective analysis of 5,833 AIDS cases (based on the pre-1987 CDC clinical case definition) reported to the city of New York prior to December 31, 1985. The analysis of survival was done by a cross-linkage of death records. The authors acknowledge that this method "may have resulted in some underascertainment of deaths due to outmigration." If a subject moved his or he...

Using Life Table Techniques to Model Mortality Rates for Small Populations

The study of human longevity has been a popular research topic due to the prolonging of life. However, the limited availability and poor quality of elderly data increase the difficulty of mortality modeling. It is particularly challenging if the size of the target population is small, and the parameter estimation of stochastic mortality models can be distorted. For example, the famous Lee-Carte...

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

[International classification of diseases (tenth revision)].