A non-Gompertzian paradigm for mortality kinetics of metazoan animals and failure kinetics of manufactured products

A Statistical Distribution Function of Wide Applicability

Waloddi Weibull · Journal of Applied Mechanics · 1951 · 11.4K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Probability Theory +10

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

Business, Jurisprudence, Probability Theory +6

Effects of temperature on the life span, vitality and fine structure of Drosophila melanogaster

Jaime Miquel, P. Lundgren, Klaus G. Bensch et al. · Mechanisms of Ageing and Development · 1976 · 342 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Entomology +16

Gerontological Data of C57BL/6J Mice. I. Sex Differences in Survival Curves

I. Kunstýř, Hans Leuenberger · Journal of Gerontology · 1975 · 145 citations

Education, Biostatistics, Aging +15

Studies on aging in nematodes

D. Gershon · Experimental Gerontology · 1970 · 89 citations

Agriculture, Zoology, Aging +8