The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness

by Bruce Levin and Gilberto Levy

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118645855
• ISBN13: 9781118645857
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"