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Probability Of Death

Probability of Death is a demographic metric in life table analysis that quantifies the likelihood that an individual of a given age will die within a specified interval, distinguishing it from other survival metrics by its focus on the risk of mortality rather than survival or longevity.

221

Publications

14.9K

Citations

675

Authors

335

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

44

Variants

Q(x)

Parents

Publications

221

Future life expectancy in 35 industrialised countries: projections with a Bayesian model ensemble

Vasilis Kontis, James E. Bennett, Colin Mathers et al. · The Lancet · 2017 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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A nonidentifiability aspect of the problem of competing risks.

Anastasios A. Tsiatis · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1975 · 860 citations · Full text

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In Search of Methuselah: Estimating the Upper Limits to Human Longevity

S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes, Christine K. Cassel · Science · 1990 · 628 citations

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Evaluation of the Subjective Probabilities of Survival in the Health and Retirement Study

Michael D. Hurd, Kathleen McGarry · The Journal of Human Resources · 1995 · 520 citations

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On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality and on a new mode of determining life contingencies

Benjamin Gompertz · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1825 · 459 citations

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Authors

675

  1. CL
    Chin Long Chiang

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    4 publications · 933 citations

    4

    h-index

  2. EA
    Elizabeth Arias

    National Center for Health Statistics, United States

    4 publications · 334 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. MD
    Michael D. Hurd

    RAND Corporation, United States

    3 publications · 579 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. JW
    James W. Vaupel

    Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

    3 publications · 178 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. SH
    Samuel H. Preston

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    3 publications · 108 citations

    3

    h-index

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Institutions

335

  1. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

    Rostock, Germany

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    377 citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    1.4K citations

  3. University of Southern Denmark

    Odense, Denmark

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    676 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    439 citations

  5. Vienna Institute of Demography

    Vienna, Austria

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    227 citations

  6. Centre for Demographic Studies

    Bellaterra, Spain

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    141 citations

  7. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

    Laxenburg, Austria

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    221 citations

  8. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    6.3K citations

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Venues

  1. PubMed

    Repository · 14 publications · 826 citations

    13

    h-index

  2. PLoS ONE

    7 publications · 373 citations

    7

    h-index

  3. Population Studies

    5 publications · 370 citations

    5

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  4. Journal of Chronic Diseases

    4 publications · 588 citations

    4

    h-index

  5. Biometrics

    4 publications · 587 citations

    4

    h-index

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