Gompertz-Makeham law

English

Etymology

Named after Benjamin Gompertz and William Makeham.

Proper noun

the Gompertz-Makeham law

  1. The observation that the human death rate is the sum of an age-dependent component (the Gompertz function), which increases exponentially with age, and an age-independent component (the Makeham term).
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