Paleodemography: Expectancy and false hope

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 571-583

  Bocquet Appel, J P ^a   Masset, C ^b  

^a MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Age distribution; Demographic estimators; Iterative proportional fitting

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PREDICTION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY; LENGTH OF LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WORLD;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAYES THEOREM; DEATH; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0029868885     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199604)99:4<571::AID-AJPA4>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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