One recurring theme in our forthcoming book, Modelling Mortality with Actuarial Applications, is the all-pervading role of likelihoods that suggest the lurking presence of a Poisson distribution. A popular assumption in modelling hazard rates is that the number of deaths observed at any given age is a Poisson random variable, so perhaps that might explain […]
Read MoreIn this excerpt from The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, discover the complex connections between ethics, metaphysics, and significance when it comes to the question of life and death.
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