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Some Remarks About “Mortality of a Heterogeneous Cohort; Description and Implications”

✍ Scribed by Philip Hougaard

Book ID
101714645
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
93 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0323-3847

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✦ Synopsis

It is pointad out that the reaulta of VAWPEL et 81. (1979) on mortality for heterogeneous populations are correct and thus it is not corqct of Nona (1984) to claim that the resulte are faulty.

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A recent model for heterogeneous mortality by VAUPEL et al. (1979) is shown t o be based on incorrect definitions. An alternative formulation is presented. The results indicate that current methods for computing the survivorship and life expectation functions underestimate the true values. A method