Debilitation's Aftermath: Stochastic Process Models of Mortality

Mathematical Population Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 21-48

  Vaupel, James W ^a   Yashin, Anatoli I ^b   Manton, Kenneth G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Duke University ^*  (Australia)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL AGING; BIOLOGY; CATERING SERVICE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMICS; HUNGER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICAL FACTORS; POLITICS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; STARVATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WAR;

BIOLOGICAL AGING; BIOLOGY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; EPIDEMICS; FAMINE; FOOD SUPPLY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICAL FACTORS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; WAR;

AGING; BIOLOGY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD SUPPLY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; STARVATION; WAR;

EID: 0023561742     PISSN: 08898480     EISSN: 1547724X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08898488809525259     Document Type: Article

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