Mortality
111natural mortality — a measure of the rate of removal of fish from a population from natural causes, not through fishing. Includes predation, cannibalism, senility, disease, pollution, etc. The balance that must be struck between natural mortality and fishing… …
112Select Mortality Table — A mortality table which outlines life contingency statistics for a certain period of time. A select mortality table includes mortality data on individuals who have recently purchased life insurance. These individuals tend to have lower mortality… …
113Ultimate Mortality Table — A mortality table that lists the death rates of insured persons of each sex and age group and excludes data from policies that have been recently underwritten. An ultimate mortality table also lists the proportion of individual survival from… …
114Age-standardized mortality rate — Age standardized mortality rates are used to compare the mortality rates of places without being skewed by the difference in age distributions from place to place. Standardized rates are favored over Crude Rates because they take age groups into… …
115Bills of Mortality — The London Bills of Mortality were the main source of mortality statistics, designed to monitor deaths from the plague from the 1600s 1830s. They were used mainly as a way of warning about plague epidemics. They began to be made in London after… …
116Morbidity and mortality — may refer to: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a weekly publication by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and mortality conference, a periodic conference in many medical centers usually held to review cases with …
117Force of mortality — In actuarial science, force of mortality represents the instantaneous rate of mortality at a certain age measured on an annualized basis. It is identical in concept to failure rate, also called hazard function, in reliability theory.In a life… …
118fishing mortality — A mathematical expression of the rate of deaths of fish due to fishing. Fishing mortality is often expressed as a rate that indicates the percentage of the population caught in a year; e.g. a fishing mortality rate of 0.2 implies that… …
119seasonal total mortality rate — the number of fish which die during a season from causes other than fishing divided by the initial number (Ricker, 1975). Also called annual mortality rate, annual natural mortality rate, conditional natural mortality rate, seasonal natural… …
120Valuation Mortality Table — A statistical chart that is used by insurance companies to calculate the statutory reserve and cash surrender values of life insurance policies. A mortality table shows the death rate at any given age in terms of the number of deaths that occur… …
