Application of mixture models to approximation of age-at-death distribution

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 229 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6687
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6687(96)00014-5

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, mixture models were applied to approximate a distribution of a lifetime. As the optimizing criterion, the minimizing of the chi-square statistic was adopted. This method was verified for three mixtures consisting of three distributions for American and Polish populations.