Reconsidering mortality compression and deceleration: An alternative model of mortality rates

Demography

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 79-95

  Lynch, Scott M ^a   Brown, J Scott ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035261371     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088290     Document Type: Article

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