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Meep contrasts the distinction between birth year (cohort) mortality tables and calendar year (period) mortality tables. Also, I look at the difference in life expectancy calculated between these two tables.by meep
I am not talking about table selection yet, but I do want to talk about survival probabilities, because of one of the dumbest mortality-related tweets I’ve seen [mainly because I do not collect or search out mortality tweets. Yet. I’m sure far dumber exist.]
If it were...
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Let’s start with the juicier story:
France’s Jeanne Calment, widely recognized as history’s oldest woman upon her death at age 122, may have actually been a 99-year-old imposter, according to an explosive new theory being...
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One of the major causes of the French Revolution was the parlous state of the government finances. Now, poor public finance is something that occurs often in history, especially European history. Both Britain and France had public finance issues in the 18th century, partly driven by their propensity to...
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I kick off a new video series - mortality with meep! Start at the very beginning: q_xby meep
Announcing the return of Mortality Monday (yes, on a Wednesday), a look at mortality rates in light of recent news.by meep
Going over probabilities of spouses outliving each other... and expected number of years to outlive.by meep
100 years ago in Cincinnati: Our history: City suffered through deadly 1918 flu pandemic
October 1918 was the worst month and marks when the disease finally reached Cincinnati.
On Oct. 5, the Cincinnati Board of Health voted unanimously to close all churches, schools, theaters and public meeting places until the danger...
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Note that we’re not counting “pandemic” outbreaks like H1N1 in 2009, or the Spanish Flu, which occurred 100 years ago. This is just normal, seasonal flu.
And last season it was really bad.
The tally is in, and it’s 80,000. That’s just the deaths. That is not including 1...
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The timing of the Spanish Flu pandemic in the U.S. is that it originated in a U.S. Army training camp in the spring of 1918… but that wave wasn’t too harsh… then the men went over to Europe.
In September 1918, as the allied powers were winning, and some soldiers were...
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