Proportional Hazards Life Table Models: An Illustrative Analysis of Socio-Demographic Influences on Marriage Dissolution in the United States | Zendy

Jane Menken | Zendy; James Trussell | Zendy; Debra Stempel | Zendy; Ozer Babakol | Zendy

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Proportional Hazards Life Table Models: An Illustrative Analysis of Socio-Demographic Influences on Marriage Dissolution in the United States

Author(s) -

Jane Menken,

James Trussell,

Debra Stempel,

Ozer Babakol

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061092

Subject(s) - covariate , demographic analysis , demography , marital status , proportionality (law) , life table , proportional hazards model , statistics , survival analysis , population , econometrics , demographic economics , mathematics , research methodology , economics , sociology , political science , law

The proportional hazards life table is a recently developed approach to the analysis of survival data when mortality risks vary among individuals. It assumes that at a given age (or duration since the start of a life) the force of mortality is a constant (specific to that age) multiplied by a proportionality factor which is determined by the characteristics of the individual and does not change unless these covariates do. In this paper, the method is reviewed for the case where the covariates are fixed at the start of the lifetime and illustrated by an application to marital dissolution in the United States.

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