Existence of Gompertz Parameters and Its Asymptotic Formulae for a Large Population

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-180

  Lakshminarayanan, E S ^a   Pitchaimani, M ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Existence; Gompertz; Mortality rates; MRD; Survival; Weibull

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EXISTENCE; GOMPERTZ; MORTALITY RATES; MRD; SURVIVAL;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 1242329921     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(04)90029-8     Document Type: Article

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