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A new parametric model to assess delay and compression of mortality

BACKGROUND: A decrease in mortality across all ages causes a shift of the age pattern of mortality, or mortality delay, while differences in the rate of decrease across ages cause a change in the shape of the age-at-death distribution, mortality compression or expansion. Evidence exists for both com...

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Autores principales: de Beer, Joop, Janssen, Fanny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5131424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27905972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-016-0113-1

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