Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram

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

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