Estimation of life expectancy in the Middle Ages

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-117

  Jonker, M A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Historical data; Left truncation; Modelling; Right censoring; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044471178     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00261     Document Type: Review

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