The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness Contributor(s): Levy, Gilberto (Author), Levin, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 1118645855 ISBN-13: 9781118645857 Publisher: Wiley OUR PRICE: $121.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Medical | Biostatistics - Medical | Epidemiology |
Dewey: 571.878 |
LCCN: 2013039615 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 272 pages |
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Publisher Description: A practical and clarifying approach to aging and aging-related diseases Providing a thorough and extensive theoretical framework, The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness addresses the surprisingly subtlenotion--with consequential biomedical and public health relevance--of what it means for acondition to be related to aging. In this pursuit, the book presents a new quantitative methodto examine the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to mortality anddisease incidence in a population. With input from evolutionary biology, population genetics, demography, and epidemiology, this medically motivated book describes an index of aging-relatedness and also features:
The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness is an excellent resource for practitioners and researchers with an interest in aging and aging-related diseases from the fields of medicine, biology, gerontology, biostatistics, epidemiology, demography, and public health. |