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The Biostatistics of Aging : From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness.

A practical and clarifying approach to aging and aging-related diseases Providing a thorough and extensive theoretical framework, The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness addresses the surprisingly subtlenotion-with consequential biomedical and public h...

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Main Author: Levy, Gilberto
Other Authors: Levin, Bruce
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2014.
Subjects:
Aging > Statistical methods.
Mortality > Statistical methods.
Life spans (Biology)
Life expectancy.
Mortality.
Aging > pathology
Epidemiologic Methods
Life Expectancy
Models, Statistical
Mortality
mortality.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781118645673
1118645677
9781118645857
1118645855
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:A practical and clarifying approach to aging and aging-related diseases Providing a thorough and extensive theoretical framework, The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness addresses the surprisingly subtlenotion-with consequential biomedical and public health relevance-of what it means for acondition to be related to aging. In this pursuit, the book presents a new quantitative methodto examine the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to mortality anddisease incidence in a population. With input fr.
Physical Description:1 online resource (270 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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