I refit Gompertz's 1825 mortality law on a US 1900 life table. One slope explains 97% of the log-hazard.

Part 84 of Forgotten Theories, a series re-testing old scientific claims with modern tools. Find the rest under the #forgotten-theories tag. Benjamin Gompertz read a paper to the Royal Society in June 1825 titled "On the Nature of the Function Expre...