Rectangularization revisited: Variability of age at death within human populations

Demography

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 475-495

  Wilmoth, John R ^a   Horiuchi, Shiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; LINEAR MODELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033219331     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648085     Document Type: Article

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