Entropy analysis of human death uncertainty

Uncertainty 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 cu...

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Autor principal: Machado, J. A. Tenreiro (author)
Outros Autores: Lopes, António M. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2021
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/18648
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/18648