An Application of a General Branching Pr
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PETER OLOFSSON; OTTO SCHWALB; RANAJIT CHAKRABORTY; MAREK KIMMEL
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A general branching process model is developed to analyse familial dependence in longevity data. A general formula for the survival function of a randomly chosen sibling of an individual of a speci"ed age is derived. The branching process model takes into account that siblings' ages may be censored.