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stat.AP2019★ 3 cited
Shifting attention to old age: Detecting mortality deceleration using focused model selection
Marie Böhnstedt, Hein Putter, Nadine Ouellette +2
The decrease in the increase in death rates at old ages is a phenomenon that has repeatedly been discussed in demographic research. While mortality deceleration can be explained in…
q-bio.QM2019★ 1 cited
The threshold age of Keyfitz' entropy
José Manuel Aburto, Jesús-Adrián Alvarez, Francisco Villavicencio +1
BACKGROUND Indicators of relative inequality of lifespans are important because they capture the dimensionless shape of aging. They are markers of inequality at the population leve…