ABOUT BOOK

The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potential ~readers as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. This approach ~may be disappointing: Demographers may have liked more information about ~the mathematical underpinnings of population dynamics on the Lexis surface as ~demonstrated, for instance, by Arthur and Vaupel in 1984. Statisticians would have ~probably preferred more information about the underlying smoothing methods that ~were used. Epidemiologists likewise might miss discussions about the etiology of ~diseases. Sociologists would have probably expected that our results were more ~embedded into theoretical frameworks....