Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram

The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potentialreaders as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. This approachmay be disappointing: Demographers may have liked more information aboutthe mathematical underpinnings of population dynamics on the Lexis surface asdemonstrated, for instance, by Arthur and Vaupel in 1984. Statisticians would haveprobably preferred more information about the underlying smoothing methods thatwere used. Epidemiologists likewise might miss discussions about the etiology ofdiseases. Sociologists would have probably expected that our results were moreembedded into theoretical frameworks...

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