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Mathematical hazard models of mortality: An alternative to model life tables
Author(s) -
Gage Timothy B.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330760403
Subject(s) - survivorship curve , hazard , table (database) , census , population , construct (python library) , demography , statistics , woodland , life table , mortality rate , grouped data , geography , computer science , mathematics , data mining , biology , ecology , sociology , programming language
A five‐parameter competing hazard model of the age pattern of mortality is described, and methods of fitting it to survivorship, death rate, and age structure data are developed and presented. The methods are then applied to published life table and census data to construct life tables for a Late Woodland population, a Christian period Nubian population, and the Yanomama. The advantage of this approach over the use of model life tables is that the hazard model facilitates life‐table construction without imposing a particular age pattern of mortality on the data. This development makes it possible to use anthropological data to extend the study of human variation in mortality patterns to small populations.