Finkelstein, Maxim; Vaupel, James W. - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 7, pp. 111-138
Vaupel (1998) posed the provocative question, “When it comes to death, how do people and flies differ from Toyotas?†He suggested that as the force of natural selection diminishes with age, structural reliability concepts can be profitably used in mortality analysis. Vaupel (2003) went...