Penna ageing model and improvement of medical care in 20th century

Paulo Murilo de Oliveira, Suzana Moss de Oliveira, Dietrich Stauffer and Stanislaw Cebrat

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 273, issue 1, 145-149

Abstract: In Penna's model for biological ageing we reduce after equilibration the influence of acquired diseases and get, similar to reality, the observed increase of the Gompertz slope for the human mortality curves.

Keywords: Penna model; Biological ageing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00349-0

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