Age likes some years: A case study for ages more prone to death

Ahmed F. Siddiqi

doi:10.1007/s11192-006-0155-4

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 69: Issue 2

Age likes some years

A case study for ages more prone to death

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Ahmed F. Siddiqi

Ahmed F. Siddiqi School of Business & Economics, University of Management & Technology School of Business & Economics, 11-Aibak Block, Garden Town, Lahore 54700, Pakistan School of Business & Economics, 11-Aibak Block, Garden Town, Lahore 54700, Pakistan

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Pages:: 315–321

Online Publication Date:: 12 Sep 2006

Publication Date:: 12 Nov 2006

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0155-4

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Summary

A person can die at any age. It is an omni-spoken common saying. Is it really true? Are all ages equally prone to die? Does there exist some predictable pattern that may conjecture the incidence of death? These are the questions that are attempted here in this article. Literature is replete with cohort dependant age distributions and pyramids that focus, and are adjusted, primarily for the living persons. The current article is using a cohort free group of people and focuses exclusively on age at death to rummage for some pattern in these ages. A statistical investigation is made of the life span of human beings of previous two centuries. The life span, or age, distribution is revealed to be a quadric modal in nature, refuting the prevailed myth that all ages are equally susceptible to death.

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