How frailty models can be used for evaluating longevity limits: Taking advantage of an interdisciplinary approach

Demography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-48

  Yashin, Anatoli I ^a   Iachine, Ivan A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POPULATION MORTALITY;

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; PHENOTYPE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL; TWINS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; PHENOTYPE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TWIN STUDIES;

EID: 0031062272     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2061658     Document Type: Article

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