Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality — The Gompertz Makeham law states that death rate is a sum of age independent component (Makeham term) and age dependent component (Gompertz function), which increases exponentially with age. In a protected environment where external causes of… … Wikipedia
Biodemography of human longevity — Biodemography is a multidisciplinary approach, integrating biological knowledge (studies on human biology and animal models) with demographic research on human longevity and survival. Biodemographic studies are important for understanding the… … Wikipedia
Culture of Taiwan — The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Confucianist Han Chinese, Japanese, European, American, global, local, and Taiwanese aborigines cultures, which are often perceived in both traditional and modern understandings.[1] The common socio political… … Wikipedia
Senescence — refers to the biological processes of a living organism approaching an advanced age (i.e., the combination of processes of deterioration which follow the period of development of an organism). The word senescence is derived from the Latin word… … Wikipedia
New Confucianism — Not to be confused with Neo Confucianism, an earlier movement in Imperial China. New Confucianism (Chinese: 新儒家; pinyin: xīn rú jiā; literally New Confucianism ) is an intellectual movement of Confucianism that began in the early 20th century in… … Wikipedia
hypothesis — A conjecture advanced for heuristic purposes, cast in a form that is amenable to confirmation or refutation by the conductance of definable experiments and the critical assembly of empiric data; not to be confused with assumption, postulation, or … Medical dictionary
List of statistics topics — Please add any Wikipedia articles related to statistics that are not already on this list.The Related changes link in the margin of this page (below search) leads to a list of the most recent changes to the articles listed below. To see the most… … Wikipedia
Mortality rate — Crude death rate by country Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of… … Wikipedia
Gompertz function — A Gompertz curve or Gompertz function, named after Benjamin Gompertz, is a sigmoid function. It is a type of mathematical model for a time series, where growth is slowest at the start and end of a time period.:y(t)=ae^{be^{ctwhere * a is the… … Wikipedia
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