1. Brass, W. 1971. On the scale of mortality. In Biological aspects of demography, ed. W. Brass, 69–110. London: Taylor & Francis.
2. Brass, W. 1974. Perspectives in population prediction, illustrated by the statistics of England and Wales. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 137: 532–583.
3. Chiang, C.L. 1984. The life table and its applications. Malabar: Robert E. Krieger.
4. Coale, A.J. 1984. Life table construction on the basis of two enumerations of a closed population. Population Index 50 (2): 193–213.
5. Coale, A.J., and P. Demeny. 1983. Regional model life tables and stable populations. 2nd ed. New York: Academic.