Cultural imagery and statistical models of the force of mortality: Addison, Gompertz and Pearson

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

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 483-499

  Turner, Elizabeth L ^a   Hanley, James A ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hazard function; History; Life tables; Mixture models; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954808010     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00640.x     Document Type: Article

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