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The 9th Chinese Data Mining and Applied Statistics Cross-Strait Conference

Fractional Age Assumption Based on Cubic Polynomial Interpolation

Shilong LiSchool of Insurance, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
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Xia ZhaoSchool of Insurance, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
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Jingxiao ZhangCenter for Applied Statistics, School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, P. R. ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1173-1186 | Received 10 Jul 2012, Accepted 10 Sep 2012, Published online: 14 Apr 2016

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