Comparing the Gompertz-Type Models with a First Passage Time Density Model

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title={Comparing the Gompertz-Type Models with a First Passage Time Density Model},
year={2010}
}
• Published 2010
• Mathematics
In this chapter we derive and analyse Gompertz-type probability density functions and compare these functions to a first passage time density function. The resulting Gompertz-type pdfs are mirror images of each other, each skewed in a specific direction, whereas the first passage-type model gives functions with both left and right skewness depending on parameter values. We apply these pdfs to the life table data for females in the United States, 2004, and to the medfly data provided in Carey et… Expand

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