A New Method for Correcting Underestimation of Disabled Life Expectancy and an Application to the Chinese Oldest-Old.

This article demonstrates that disabled life expectancies that based on conventional multistate life-table methods are significantly underestimated because of the assumption of no changes in functional status between age x and death. We present a new method to correct the bias and apply it to data f...

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Publicado en:Demography Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 335 - 362
Autores principales: Yi, Zeng, Danan, Gu, Land, Kenneth C.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. May 2004
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