An eight-parameter model of human mortality. The single decrement case

zbMath0494.62089MaRDI QIDQ1169234

Robert C. Busby, Charles J. Mode

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

demographysurvival functionsvalidationeight-parameter model of human mortalityestimating parameters from abridged life tablesGompertz risk functionGompertz-Makeham risk functionmortality changemortality risk functionparabolic risk functionsingle decrement casestep- wise nonlinear least-squares procedureUnited States white male population

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical smoothing, curve fitting (65D10) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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