From lifetables to hazard rates: The transformation approach

Biometrika

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 881-892

  Müller, Hans Georg ^a   Wang, Jane Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth choice; Bias correction; Death rate; Lifetime; Mortality; Smoothing; Weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000520237     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/84.4.881     Document Type: Article

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