Survival probability and predictors for woman experience childhood death in Nigeria: “analysis of north–south differentials”

Table 9 Derivation of Smoothed Probability of Surviving and Smoothed Mortality Levels for Southern Nigeria

Age	x	l _x(i)	Probabilities of survivingl _S(i)			Logit{l _x(i)}	Logit{l _x(s)}	Logit{l _x(l)	Smoothed Probability of Surviving	Smoothed Probability of Dying
Age	x	l _x(i)	Level 16	Level 17	Level 16.21	Logit{l _x(i)}	Logit{l _x(s)}	Logit{l _x(l)	Smoothed Probability of Surviving	Smoothed Probability of Dying
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
15-19	1	0.9231	0.91750	0.92764	0.91963	−1.24262	−1.21866	−1.23807	0.92245	0.07755
20-24	2	0.8940	0.89785	0.91162	0.90074	−1.06613	−1.10275	−1.12216	0.90416	0.09584
25-29	3	0.8910	0.88526	0.90101	0.88857	−1.05050	−1.03810	−1.05751	0.89235	0.10765
30-34	5	0.8893	0.86818	0.88633	0.87199	−1.04181	−0.95934	−0.97875	0.87626	0.12374
35-39	10	0.8683	0.84751	0.86868	0.85196	−0.94301	−0.87501	−0.89442	0.85679	0.14321
40-44	15	0.8705	0.83592	0.85853	0.84067	−0.95269	−0.83160	−0.85101	0.84580	0.15420
45-49	20	0.8338	0.82169	0.84564	0.82672	−0.80640	−0.78128	−0.80069	0.83221	0.16779

l_x(i): Probability of surviving for index population; l_x(s): Probability of surviving for standard population.

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