 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 424 pages
...It is well known what ufe has been made of thefe by Dr Halley, and after him by De Moivre. A table of the probabilities of the duration of human life at every age, deduced from them by Dr Halley, has been publimed in the Philofophical Tranfaflions, (fee the Abridgement,... | |
 | Richard Price - 1812 - 534 pages
...this difference, wanted to calculate life annuities and reversions to exactness, ii. 1 12., Two soru of data for forming tables of the probabilities of the duration of, at every age, ii. 250. Observations on the tables of, for Sweden, and Stockholm, i i. 252. Summary... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...well • known what use has been made of these by Dr. Halley, and after him by Mr. Demoivre. A table of the probabilities of the duration of human life at every age, deduced from them by Dr. Halley, was published in the Philos. Trans, vol. 17, and has been inserted... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 774 pages
...It is well known what ufe has -been made of thefe by Dr Halley, and after him by De Moivre. A table of the probabilities of the duration of human life at every age, deduced from them by Dr Halley, has been publifhed in the Philof. Tranf. ifee the Abridgement, vol.... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris, John Samuel Martin Fonblanque - Medical jurisprudence - 1823 - 556 pages
...ages of the dead were those for the town of Breslaw in Silesia, from which Dr. HALLEY deduced a table of the probabilities of the duration of human life, at every age, see Philosophical Traniactioni (Abridgement vol. iii, p. 669.) Similar bills were established at Northampton... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 880 pages
...It is well known what use has been made of these by Dr Halley, and after him by De Moivre. A table of the probabilities of the duration of human life at every age, deduced from them by Dr Halley, has been published in the Philosophical Transactions, (see the Abridgement,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...It is well known what use has been made of these by Dr. Halley, and after him by De Moivre. A table lavished upon Zeuxi J d Apelles, would hav J en supported by t deduced from them by Dr. Halley, was published in the Philosophical Transactions (see the Abridgment,... | |
 | Sir Travers Twiss - 1845 - 152 pages
...Introduction to the Observations on Reversionary Payments, 4th edit. 1783, states, " that there are two kinds of data for forming tables of the probabilities of...every age. One is furnished by registers of mortality showing the numbers dying at all ages; the other, by the proportions of deaths at all ages to the numbers... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - Insurance, Life - 1853 - 378 pages
...Silesia, was the only place which recorded the ages of its dead ; and from these Halley drew a table of the probabilities of the duration of human life at every age. This was in 1693, and was the first table of the sort ever published.* In it he taught, with great... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - Insurance agents - 1857 - 456 pages
...ages of the dead was kept. From the recorded ages in the Breslau register, Dr. Halley drew a table of the probabilities of the duration of human life at every age. In it he taught with great clearness and exactness the conditions needful for the formation of rates... | |
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In it he taught with great clearness and exactness the conditions needful for the formation of rates of mortality ; the manner of forming them with complete geometrical precision ; of deducing a corresponding table of the present... 
