The impact of ovarian cancer on life expectancy in Japan

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 741-747

  Sun, Juan ^a   Bi, Lifu ^c   Chi, Yaojun ^c   Huang, Guowei ^a   Fan, Chun ^d   Aoki, Kazuo ^b   Kono, Akihiro ^b   Hui, Tian ^b   Misumi, Junichi ^b  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INNER MONGOLIA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gompertz; Life expectancy; Ovarian cancer; YPLLs

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548203109     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760701237036     Document Type: Article

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