Aims and objectives
Aim
Introduce life table methods with multiple decrementsÂ
Objectives
- Develop and understand life tables with multiple decrements
- Understand the notion of competing risks
- Develop and understand cause-deleted or associated single decrement life tables
- Highlight the difference between multiple decrement probabilities of dying and associated single decrement probabilities of dying
- Introduce the notion of stationary populations with multiple decrements
- Develop life tables from current status data: the Singulate Mean Age at Marriage (SMAM)