On damage accumulation and biological aging

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1643-1648

  Finkelstein, Maxim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accumulated damage; Aging; Imperfect repair; Mortality; Vitality

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649093867     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.05.024     Document Type: Article

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