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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

MAKEHAM, William Matthews (1826 – 1891)

1826 – 1891

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1860

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On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables.

MAKEHAM, William Matthews (1826 – 1891)

Gompertz-Makeham law. Makeham proposed the age-independent Makeham term that, together with the exponentially age-dependent Gompertz term, compose the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality--one of the most effective theor…