Figure 9.
Logarithms of three mortality rates: mortality μ(x) (denoted by a solid line), in the cohort of Italian females born at the end of the 19th century (Del Panta and Rettaroli 1994); mortality (denoted by a dotted line), in the hypothetical “young” cohort; and mortality
(denoted by a dashed line) in the synthetic cohort constructed from cross-sectional data. μ(x) and μy(x) are used as baseline mortalities in a sensitivity analysis.