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The 12 pages that link to Life table, each with the reason it gives.

• Population viability analysisRelated: Life tables provide demographic inputs for many population models.

• Historical demographyRelated: It translates death records into estimates of life expectancy and survival.

• Population ecologyBroader topic: It records the vital rates used to project population growth and structure.

• Life history theoryRelated: It records the demographic outcomes that life-history strategies produce.

• Edmond HalleyRelated: Halley constructed a mortality table from Breslau records, applying quantitative analysis to human lifespans.

• Life expectancyRelated: It converts age-specific mortality rates into survival probabilities and expected years of life.

• Mortality rateRelated: It turns age-specific mortality rates into estimates of survival and life expectancy.

• LongevityRelated: It turns age-specific death rates into comparable measures of lifespan.

• Child mortalityRelated: Life tables show how mortality risks vary across childhood ages.

• William FarrRelated: Farr used life-table methods to summarize population survival and mortality.

• Ernest BurgessRelated: Burgess adapted life-table methods to estimate parole success from prisoners’ records.

• SupercentenarianRelated: Life tables place exceptional survival in the context of population mortality.