Mortality Implications of Mortality Plateaus

DOI10.1137/130912992zbMath1341.62296OpenAlexW2105370707WikidataQ58285212 ScholiaQ58285212MaRDI QIDQ2808241

James W. Vaupel, Trifon I. Missov

Publication date: 20 May 2016

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/14670

zbMATH Keywords

proportional hazardsadditive hazardscompletely monotone functionsmortality plateauGompertz hazardgamma-distributed frailty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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