age-specific mortality

collocation in English

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mortality
noun[U]
uk
/mɔːˈtæl.ə.ti/us
/mɔːrˈtæl.ə.t̬i/
the way that people do not live ...
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Age-specificmortalitypeaks at regular intervals corresponding with the times at which offspring are born.
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Future experiments should compareage-specificmortalityschedules during positive and negative growth phases of the parasite population cycle.
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Birth is itself a costly process, but the peak inage-specificmortalityoccurs a day or so after birth.
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Instead of fixed-point estimates with plausible ranges,age-specificmortalityrates might be more appropriate and accurate because of the aging of the study cohort.
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Age-specificmortalityrates were applied when the cohort aged in the model (8).
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However, additional evidence in the shape ofage-specificmortalitydata supports the existence of a causative relationship between sanitary reform and the decline of urban infant mortality in our sample.
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Model fitting and hypothesis testing forage-specificmortalitydata.
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Expected deaths are the number of deaths we would expect to have in a sub-group based on its age distribution andage-specificmortalityrates from a specified table.
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Theage-specificmortalityof a population is followed over its entire life span with competing risks from radiation and all other causes of death described.
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His research activities here strive to understandage-specificmortalityin terms of the evolutionary processes that shape it.
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It is not used to derive life expectancy, which is calculated directly from theage-specificmortalityrates, with no reference population required.
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It is important to note that this statistic is usually based on past mortality experience, and assumes that the sameage-specificmortalityrates will continue into the future.
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