...Bonneuil
Institut national d'‚tudes d‚mographiques, 27, rue du Commandeur, 75675, Paris, France.

...Brouard
Unit‚ ``D‚mographie et ‚pid‚miologie'', INED, PARIS

...Robine
Inserm CJF 88-12, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France.

...1992
We are very grateful to Eileen Crimmins and her colleagues, in particular Yasuhiko Saito, for help with the present study. This collaboration allows us to compare methods using strictly the same inputs (selection of individuals, health criteria, treatment of missing data, etc).

...written
Death corresponds to state 3, we have: 52#52 for k=1,2 and 53#53 for j=1,3.

...matrix
Since T is not strictly equal to 2 years, some corrections have to be made for operational computations.

Nicolas Brouard
Tue Jun 6 00:15:46 DF 1995