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Mortality Deceleration and Mortality Selection: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth - In: Demography 51 (2014) 1, pp. 51-71

Unobserved heterogeneity in mortality risk is pervasive and consequential. Mortality deceleration—the slowing of …

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Modelling Deceleration in Senescent Mortality

BEBBINGTON, MARK; LAI, CHIN-DIEW; ZITIKIS, RIcARDAS - In: Mathematical Population Studies 18 (2011) 1, pp. 18-37

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 …

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