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Entropy analysis of human death uncertainty

dc.contributor.authorMachado, J. A. Tenreiro
dc.contributor.authorLopes, António M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-01T14:00:28Z
dc.date.embargo2031-12
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractUncertainty about the time of death is part of one’s life, and plays an important role in demographic and actuarial sciences. Entropy is a measure useful for characterizing complex systems. This paper analyses death uncertainty through the concept of entropy. For that purpose, the Shannon and the cumulative residual entropies are adopted. The first may be interpreted as an average information. The second was proposed more recently and is related to reliability measures such as the mean residual lifetime. Data collected from the Human Mortality Database and describing the evolution of 40 countries during several decades are studied using entropy measures. The emerging country and inter-country entropy patterns are used to characterize the dynamics of mortality. The locus of the two entropies gives a deeper insight into the dynamical evolution of the human mortality data series.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11071-021-06503-2pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/18648
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherSpringerpt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-021-06503-2pt_PT
dc.subjectEntropypt_PT
dc.subjectState state portraitpt_PT
dc.subjectHierarchical clusteringpt_PT
dc.subjectLifetablept_PT
dc.subjectDeath uncertaintypt_PT
dc.titleEntropy analysis of human death uncertaintypt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage3911pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue4pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage3897pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleNonlinear Dynamicspt_PT
oaire.citation.volume104pt_PT
person.familyNameTenreiro Machado
person.givenNameJ. A.
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-4274-4879
person.identifier.ridM-2173-2013
person.identifier.scopus-author-id55989030100
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