IJPAM: Volume 73, No. 2 (2011)
ESTIMATION OF MORTALITY RATE
DECELERATION PARAMETER
DECELERATION PARAMETER
E.S. Lakshminarayanan
, U. Kumaran
School of Mathematics
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai, INDIA



Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai, INDIA
Abstract. In this paper, in the absence of mortality data an estimation of mortality rate deceleration parameter is provided.
Received: May 18, 2011
AMS Subject Classification: 92Bxx, 92D10, 62F10, 62N05, 62P10
Key Words and Phrases: logistic frailty model, mortality rate deceleration parameter, gamma-Gompertz model, heterogeneity, mortality plateaus, age at which onset of mortality deceleration
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Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN printed version: 1311-8080
ISSN on-line version: 1314-3395
Year: 2011
Volume: 73
Issue: 2