On some reliability approaches to human aging

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 337-346

  Finkelstein, Maxim S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deceleration of mortality; Doubly stochastic Poisson process; Frailty; Mortality rate; Observed hazard rate; Random resource

Indexed keywords

POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DECELERATION OF MORTALITY; DOUBLY STOCHASTIC POISSON PROCESS; FRAILTY; MORTALITY RATE; OBSERVED HAZARD RATE; RANDOM RESOURCES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 23744496705     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539305001860     Document Type: Article

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