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contexts > demography > vital statistics > life tables
... > contexts > population characteristics > health > public health > epidemiologic measurements > demography > vital statistics > life tables
contexts > population characteristics > demography > vital statistics > life tables
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life tables  

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  • A life table describes, in terms of various life table functions, the probability distribution of duration time in a tabular form. Duration time is the time interval from an initial time point to the occurrence of a point event such as death or incidence of disease. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Life Tables]

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