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Gompertz-Makeham law
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English
Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality
Etymology
Named after Benjamin Gompertz and William Makeham.
Proper noun
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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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