Quantifying the shape of aging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Wrycza, Tomasz F ^a   Missov, Trifon I ^a,b   Baudisch, Annette ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84956678123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119163     Document Type: Article

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