Generalized Erlang and mortality levelling off distributions

DOI10.1016/J.MCM.2010.01.011MaRDI QIDQ604145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sumit K. Garg

Publication date 8 November 2010

Published in Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2010.01.011

zbMATH Keywords

logistic modelmortality ratehazard rate functionunimodalbathtub shapedecreasingdecelerationBurr distribution\(S\) shapeErlangGompertzincreasinglevelling-oflog-logisticsmortality deceleration index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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