Demographic window to aging in the wild: Constructing life tables and estimating survival functions from marked individuals of unknown age

Aging Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 125-131

  Müller, Hans Georg ^a,d   Wang, Jane Ling ^a,d   Carey, James R ^a,b,d   Caswell Chen, Edward P ^b,d   Chen, Carl ^b,d   Papadopoulos, Nikos ^a,d   Yao, Fang ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture; Demographic identity; Density estimation; Information content; Life table; Non parametric estimation; Remaining lifetime; Residual demography; Survival function

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LIFE TABLE; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RECORDING; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVAL TIME; WILDLIFE; AGE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LONGEVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; LIFE TABLES; LONGEVITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 13844280028     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9728.2004.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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