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[Historical dynamics of life-span distribution of Man]
A V Krementsova1, A A Konradov
1Institute of Biochemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 4, Kosiygin Street, Moscow, 117997, Russia.
Abstract:
In this activity the historical dynamics of life-span distribution parameters of the people was investigated in 12 developed countries encompassing the period of 1750-1998 years, it is treated about 1200 life tables. The approximately of a linear segment of a curve of age-specific death rate by the Gompertz function allows getting an analytical view of the life-span distribution. It is shown that the decreasing of the lower age range since 35 years till 10 years a little bit augments an approximation error. The Stehler-Mildvan correlation parameters are computed for each country, for each year during all indicated period. Estimations of the average life, modal age, dispersion etc. are obtained. It draws a conclusion about the limitation and stabilization of modal age at preservation of existing regularity in dynamics of the life-span distribution parameters.
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