Modelling Deceleration in Senescent Mortality

Mortality deceleration is the observed but yet to be understood phenomenon that the increase in the late-life death rate slows down after a certain species-related advanced age. Various definitions of onsets of mortality deceleration are examined. A new distribution based on the Strehler-Mildvan theory of aging takes on the required shapes. The application is done on mortality data from the 1892 cohort of Swedish women and on Mediterranean fruit flies.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	BEBBINGTON, MARK ; LAI, CHIN-DIEW ; ZITIKIS, RIcARDAS
Published in:	Mathematical Population Studies. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0889-8480. - Vol. 18.2011, 1, p. 18-37
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals
Subject:	biodemography \| Gompertz law \| mortality deceleration \| mortality rate \| onset of late-life mortality \| senescent mortality

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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