The Age Pattern of Increases in Mortality Affected by HIV: Bayesian Fit of the Heligman-Pollard Model to Data from the Agincourt HDSS Field Site in Rural Northeast South Africa

BACKGROUND: We investigate the sex-age-specific changes in the mortality of a prospectively monitored rural population in South Africa. We quantify changes in the age pattern of mortality in a parsimonious way by estimating the eight parameters of the Heligman-Pollard (HP) model of age-specific mort...

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Main Authors: Sharrow, David J., Clark, Samuel J., Collinson, Mark A., Kahn, Kathleen, Tollman, Stephen M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896243/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24453696
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.39
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