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Adequate life-expectancy reconstruction for adult human mortality data

Mortality information of populations is aggregated in life tables that serve as a basis for calculation of life expectancy and various life disparity measures. Conventional life-table methods address right-censoring inadequately by assuming a constant hazard in the last open-ended age group. As a re...

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Autores principales: Németh, László, Missov, Trifon I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29864166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198485