Population mortality forecasts are widely used for allocating public health expenditures, setting research priorities … great deal about patterns in and causes of mortality, most forecasts are still based on simple linear extrapolations that …-specific forecasts of American mortality that simultaneously incorporate, in a formal statistical model, the effects of the recent rapid …

Humans, and many other species, suffer senescence: mortality increases and fertility declines with adult age. Some … species, however, enjoy sustenance: mortality and fertility remain constant. Here we develop simple but general evolutionary …

In a heterogeneous cohort, the change with age in the force of mortality or some other kind of hazard or intensity of …

In this paper, we use the multiple cause-of-death approach to compare the mortality profiles of France and Italy in …

mortality is actually leveling o®. Based on this uncertainty, we study a mixture failure model, introduced by Finkelstein and …

the family registers in 2010, without being crossed out. They would have been 100 years old at least and represent 0.5% of …

We evaluate the consistency of age-specific mortality patterns for older Americans using the Health Care Financing … compare the mortality curves across regions within race and sex groups, and we compare national mortality curves of white men …-specific mortality data at oldest ages. Both the period and cohort age at death data for whites in the Medicare EDB appear to be very …