Overzealous maximum-likelihood fitting falsely convicts the slope heterogeneity hypothesis

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 921-923

  De Grey, Aubrey D N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; DEATH; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; THEORY;

EID: 0042206624     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(03)00115-3     Document Type: Letter

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