Cohort size and maximum likelihood estimation of mortality parameters

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 331-342

  Service, Philip M ^a   Ochoa, Ricky ^a   Valenzuela, Robert ^a   Michieli, Charles A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort size; Frailty model; Hypothesis testing; Maximum likelihood; Mortality parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; LIFESPAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY;

EID: 0032104646     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(97)00131-9     Document Type: Article

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