Understanding mortality rate deceleration and heterogeneity

Mathematical Population Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-37

  Steinsaltz, David ^a   Wachter, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodemography; Frailty; Hazard functions; Heterogeneity; Laplace transforms; Mortality plateaus

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; HETEROGENEITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING;

EID: 31344462329     PISSN: 08898480     EISSN: 1547724X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08898480500452117     Document Type: Article

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