aDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, School of Mathematics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625 021, India;bThe University of Texas at Austin, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Abstract:
In this paper we provide an interval of existence of mortality rate parameters A and α, and their asymptotic expressions in a Gompertz survival model with mortality deceleration rate, in the absence of age specific mortality data.