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The biodemography of variation in human frailty.

Demography - 1 May 1990

Weiss K M

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A population is composed of individuals who are heterogeneous in their susceptibility to death and disease. This heterogeneity is reflected in the age-specific incidence or mortality (hazard) function. This variation has typically been hidden--that is, not measured directly--and has generally been modeled in a purely empirical statistical way, because there is no theory in demography for the distribution of...

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