@article{ref1,
title="Conversion of mortality ratios to a numerical rating classification for life insurance underwriting-revisited",
journal="Journal of insurance medicine",
year="2004",
author="Singer, Richard B.",
volume="36",
number="3",
pages="228-233",
abstract="This is a commentary requested by the J Insur Med Editor to accompany a reprinting in this 2004 issue of my 1988 article on &quot;Conversion of Mortality Ratios to a Numerical Rating Classification for Life Underwriting&quot; (J Insur Med 1988;20:54-61). Topics discussed in this commentary include the distinction between short-term and long-term mortality follow-up in certain conditions, the format and the introductory text of the US Decennial Life Tables, the distinction between mortality rate and mortality probability, averaging mortality rates over a period of years, and the great value of the exemplary follow-up study used in the 1988 article.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0743-6661",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}