On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality

By David P. Smith, N. Keyfitz. 2013

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DunedinPACE, a DNA methylation biomarker of the pace of aging (2021, background): “In humans and many other species, the increase in mortality risk with advancing chronological age is nonlinear, suggesting that the pace of biological aging accelerates as we grow older (Gompertz, 1825; Kirkwood, 2015; Olshansky and Carnes, 1997).”
Distribution of shortest path lengths in subcritical Erdős-Rényi networks. (2018, background): “Interestingly, for random regular graphs, in which all the nodes are of the same degree, k = c ≥ 3, there is an exact result for the DSPL, which can be expressed by a Gompertz distribution [40] of the form [16, 25]”
Deciphering death: a commentary on Gompertz (1825) ‘On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies’ (2015, background): “Deciphering death: a commentary on Gompertz (1825) ‘On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies’ Thomas B. L. Kirkwood Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle…”
The science of science: from the perspective of complex systems (2017, methodology): “This method was also shown to outperform some classic models for prediction including the logistic [284], Bass [285], and Gompertz [284,286] models.”
Quasi-stationary distributions and population processes (2011, background): “[28]), demographers applied the Gompertz law meaning that this extinction rate was exponentially increasing with time.”
On the Approximation of the Cut and Step Functions by Logistic and Gompertz Functions (2015, methodology): “The Gompertz function σα,β(t) is defined for α, β > 0 by [22]: σα,β(t) = e −αe−βt .”