Gage T B
State University of New York at Albany, New York 12222.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1988 Aug;76(4):429-41. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.1330760403.
A five-parameter competing hazard model of the age pattern of mortality is described, and methods of fitting it to survivorship, death rate, and age structure data are developed and presented. The methods are then applied to published life table and census data to construct life tables for a Late Woodland population, a Christian period Nubian population, and the Yanomama. The advantage of this approach over the use of model life tables is that the hazard model facilitates life-table construction without imposing a particular age pattern of mortality on the data. This development makes it possible to use anthropological data to extend the study of human variation in mortality patterns to small populations.
本文描述了一个死亡率年龄模式的五参数竞争风险模型，并开发并展示了将其拟合到生存、死亡率和年龄结构数据的方法。然后将这些方法应用于已发表的生命表和人口普查数据，以构建晚期林地人口、基督教时期努比亚人口和雅诺马马人的生命表。这种方法相对于使用模型生命表的优势在于，风险模型便于构建生命表，而无需对数据强加特定的死亡率年龄模式。这一进展使得利用人类学数据将人类死亡率模式变异的研究扩展到小群体成为可能。
