Gompertz-Makeham law (English, name)
expansion: the Gompertz-Makeham law
Senses:
glosses: 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).
Forms:
form: the Gompertz-Makeham law
tags: canonical