life.expectancy.stationary function

Life Expectancy At Birth in a Stationary Population

Calculates life expectancy at birth from age-specific survival proportions in a stationary population. See the vignette burkina-faso-females for an illustration of its use.

life.expectancy.stationary(z)

Arguments

• z: Vector of age specific survival proportions for age groups of width five years.

Details

This function calculates the life expectancy at birth in a stationary population subject to the survival proportions supplied.

Returns

Life expectancy at birth.

Author(s)

Mark C. Wheldon

Examples

## Can take a few minutes

## Not run:
data(burkina_faso_females)
life.expectancy.stationary(burkina.faso.females$survival.proportions[,1])
## End(Not run)

Vignettes

burkina-faso-females