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Paper, 'On the probablities of survivorships between two persons of any given age, and the method of determining the values of reversions depending on those survivorships' by William Morgan

Reference number: L&P/9/89

Date: 1788

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Subject: Medicine/Demography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the probabilities of survivorships between two persons of any given ages, and the method of determining the values of reversions depending on those survivorships'

Read 8 May 1788

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L&P/9/89
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25 pages
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William Morgan, Paper, 'On the probablities of survivorships between two persons of any given age, and the method of determining the values of reversions depending on those survivorships' by William Morgan, 1788, L&P/9/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_89/paper-on-the-probablities-of-survivorships-between-two-persons-of-any-given-age-and-the-method-of-determining-the-values-of-reversions-depending-on-those-survivorships-by-william-morgan, accessed on 04 October 2024

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