life table
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of life table
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Arias and her colleagues calculated life expectancy using a technique called a period life table.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2022
This life table of Ovis dalli shows the number of deaths, number of survivors, mortality rate, and life expectancy at each age interval for Dall mountain sheep.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
Developing a comprehensive life table will show the trajectory of a population.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2017
An example of a life table is shown in the Table below from a study of Dall mountain sheep, a species native to northwestern North America.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
A generation life table traces a birth cohort of 100,000 persons through their entire lives, subjecting them to the observed age-specific mortality and incarceration rates which they encountered in each subsequent calendar year of life.
From Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001 by Bonczar, Thomas P.
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