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Gilberto Levy - The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness - 9781118645857 - V9781118645857
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The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness

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Description for The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness Hardcover. Featuring a multidisciplinary approach with practical examples from biology, gerontology, and demography, The Biostatistics of Aging provides a statistical theoretical framework for aging and aging-related diseases in addition to genetic and environmental contributions to mortality. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MBNS; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574.

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:

  • Original results on ... Read more
  • A comprehensive and satisfactory explanation based on biological principles of the Gompertz pattern of mortality in human populations
  • The development of an evolution-based model of causation relevant to mortality and aging-related diseases of complex etiology
  • An explanation of how and why the description of human mortality by the Gompertz distribution can be improved upon from first principles
  • The amply illustrated analysis of real-world data, including a program for conducting the analysis written in the freely available R statistical software
  • Technical appendices including mathematical material as well as an extensive and multidisciplinary bibliography on aging and aging-related diseases

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118645857
SKU
V9781118645857
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Gilberto Levy
GILBERTO LEVY, MD, DRPH, is a neurologist with a primary research interest in aging and aging-related diseases, particularly dementia. He conducted clinical research within the spheres of epidemiological studies and clinical trials at Columbia University for more than ten years. Dr. Levy is the author of over thirty journal articles and three book chapters. BRUCE LEVIN, PHD, is ... Read more

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