Practical methodology of evaluation of mortality curves and detection of aging-related interventions

Journal of the American Aging Association

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 229-233

  Doubal, Stanislav ^a   Klemera, Petr ^a  

^a Charles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031545030     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-997-0023-z     Document Type: Article

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