Long-tailed duration distributions for disability in aged people

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2409-2412

  Moriyama, Osamu ^a   Itoh, Hiroto ^a   Matsushita, Satoru ^b   Matsushita, Mitsugu ^a  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Duration of disability; First passage time distribution; Log normal distribution; Multiple pathology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; MICTURITION; MOBILIZATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0242458213     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.72.2409     Document Type: Article

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