Benjamin Gompertz FRS (5 March 1779 – 14 July 1865) was an English self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society....
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The Gompertz curve or Gompertz function is a type of mathematical model for a time series, named after Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865). It is a sigmoid function...
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Gompertz–Makeham law states that the human death rate is the sum of an age-dependent component (the Gompertz function, named after Benjamin Gompertz)...
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and statistics, the Gompertz distribution is a continuous probability distribution, named after Benjamin Gompertz. The Gompertz distribution is often...
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evaluations and as a value of special functions. It is named after Benjamin Gompertz. It can be defined via the exponential integral as: δ = − e Ei (...
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younger brother of mathematician and actuary Benjamin Gompertz, and poet Isaac Gompertz. Being Jewish, Gompertz and his siblings were barred from attending...
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personal finance correspondent for BBC News. He is a relation of Benjamin, Isaac and Lewis Gompertz. He was born in Tenterden, Kent, and attended Dulwich Preparatory...
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rights activist Lewis Gompertz and the mathematician and actuary Benjamin Gompertz. He later composed epitaphs for his brother Barent and for Lewis'...
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Later, more sophisticated and realistic models were presented by Benjamin Gompertz and Verhulst.[citation needed] In 1855, a Belgian scholar Achille...
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predictive theories, such as the demographic studies such as the work of Benjamin Gompertz and Pierre François Verhulst in the early 19th century, who refined...
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his most notable work as an actuary is his promotion of the work of Benjamin Gompertz, whose "law of mortality" was both under-appreciated and plagiarized...
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predictive theories, such as the demographic studies such as the work of Benjamin Gompertz and Pierre François Verhulst in the early 19th century, who refined...
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models by Spiegelman and Benjamin do not mention de Moivre at all (in both cases, the surveys start with the work of Benjamin Gompertz). In his essay on the...
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so doing he applied the techniques of the English actuary Benjamin Gompertz (the Gompertz curve), and the closely allied statistical "law of mortality"...
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To support the embryonic life business, the directors recruited Benjamin Gompertz (married to Montefiore's sister), now best known for his law of mortality...
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Milne (1776–1851), English Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), English, developed the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality and the Gompertz function John Finlaison...
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n = 5. André-Marie Ampère discovers Stokes' theorem. Benjamin Gompertz formulates the Gompertz function. Jean-Baptiste Sarlandière's Mémoires sur L'Électro-Puncture...
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(1932–2007), numerical analysis Marty Golubitsky (born 1945), mathematician Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), mathematician I. J. Good (1916–2009), mathematician and...
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Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (d. 1842) 1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865) 1785 – Carlo Odescalchi...
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constructing mortality tables was entrusted to Griffith Davies; along with Benjamin Gompertz, Davies was considered one of the pioneers of life tables. The first...
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offices with a request for information. The matter was taken up by Benjamin Gompertz in correspondence with Charles Babbage. In the end an external group...
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early period was dominated by demographic studies such as the work of Benjamin Gompertz and Pierre François Verhulst in the early 19th century, who refined...
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government statistician Sydney Goldstein, expert on fluid mechanics Benjamin Gompertz, mathematician Eugene Grebenik, demographer Steven Haberman, professor...
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the Bank of England. On 16 June 1831, on the recommendation of Mr.Benjamin Gompertz, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. From about 1847 he...
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Dollond, Thomas Simpson, John Crosley, John Tatum, Francis Baily, and Benjamin Gompertz. It merged with the Royal Astronomical Society in 1846. The name lives...
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The Conversation. Retrieved 2022-12-27. Rastinejad, Jillian C.; Gompertz, Benjamin P.; Levan, Andrew J.; Fong, Wen-fai; Nicholl, Matt; Lamb, Gavin P...
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(1777–1855) John Fisher (1748–1825) John Leslie Foster (d. 1842) Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865) Thomas Greatorex (1758–1831) Robert Hamilton (d. 1832)...
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Jeffrey Goldstone 1977-03-17 William Gomildon 1663-11-11 - c. 1691 Benjamin Gompertz 1819-01-28 5 March 1779 – 14 July 1865, actuary mathematician John...
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typically assumed to follow a sigmoid function such as a logistic curve or Gompertz curve. A is also governed by the connectivity or density of the network...
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