Mortality implications of mortality plateaus

SIAM Review

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-70

  Missov, Trifon I ^a,b   Vaupel, James W ^a,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive hazards; Completely monotone functions; Gamma distributed frailty; Gompertz hazard; Mortality plateau; Proportional hazards

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES;

ADDITIVE HAZARDS; GAMMA-DISTRIBUTED; MONOTONE FUNCTIONS; MORTALITY PLATEAU; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS;

HAZARDS;

EID: 84923079789     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/130912992     Document Type: Review

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