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2134506

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-4-28
pubmed:abstractText
It is demonstrated that the expression for the life expectancy of an individual in biomedical investigations can be greatly simplified if the class of life distributions possesses what has been called the "setting the clock back to zero" property, studied previously by Raja Rao and Talwalker. It is shown that the Gompertzian growth process, Krane's family of life distributions, and the linear hazard exponential distribution have this property. To illustrate the use of this property, an individual's life expectancy is tabulated for several choices of the parameter values when the individual's life distribution belongs to a Gompertzian growth process. In addition, it is shown that a new survival model considered by Chiang and Conforti for the estimation of time to tumor has the "setting the clock back to zero" property. Its life expectancy is evaluated at any given time chi 0 using this property.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0025-5564
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
98
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
251-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Life expectancy for a class of life distributions having the "setting the clock back to zero" property.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.