Erratum: A novel generalized normal distribution for human longevity and other negatively skewed data (PLoS ONE (2012) 7: 5 (e37025) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037025);A novel generalized normal distribution for human longevity and other negatively skewed data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Robertson, Henry T ^a   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE METHOD; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIFE TABLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIFE TABLES; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84862086220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151123     Document Type: Erratum

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