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Figure 1: | |
Bulgarian mortality rates for males and females in 1992–93. /
Male-female mortality ratio and life-table aging rate (LAR) for males and females in Bulgaria in 1992–93.
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Typical pattern of mortality rates implied by a Gompertz model with and without unobserved heterogeneity. /
Life-table aging rate in a Gompertz model with and without unobserved heterogeneity.
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Figure 3: | |
Observed mortality rates implied by the modified DeMoivre hazard function for different degrees of heterogeneity in the population.
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Figure 4: | |
Application of modified DeMoivre hazard functions with Gamma distributed relative frailty to Bulgarian mortality pattern.
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Comparison of a piecewise-constant hazard model with unobserved frailty with the modified DeMoivre model with unobserved frailty.
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Figure 6: | |
Sensitivity analysis of the parameter estimates obtained for Models 1 and 2 in Table 1 with respect to different values of w
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