{"product_id":"9781118645826","title":"The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA practical and clarifying approach to aging and aging-related diseases\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProviding a thorough and extensive theoretical framework, \u003ci\u003eThe Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the surprisingly subtlenotion—with consequential biomedical and public health relevance—of what it means for acondition to be related to aging. In this pursuit, the book presents a new quantitative methodto examine the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to mortality anddisease incidence in a population.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith input from evolutionary biology, population genetics, demography, and epidemiology, this medically motivated book describes an index of aging-relatedness and also features:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOriginal results on the asymptotic behavior of the minimum of time-to-event random variables, which extends those of the classical statistical theory of extreme values\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA comprehensive and satisfactory explanation based on biological principles of the Gompertz pattern of mortality in human populations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe development of an evolution-based model of causation relevant to mortality and aging-related diseases of complex etiology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn explanation of how and why the description of human mortality by the Gompertz distribution can be improved upon from first principles\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe amply illustrated analysis of real-world data, including a program for conducting the analysis written in the freely available R statistical software\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTechnical appendices including mathematical material as well as an extensive and multidisciplinary bibliography on aging and aging-related diseases\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent resource for practitioners and researchers with an interest in aging and aging-related diseases from the fields of medicine, biology, gerontology, biostatistics, epidemiology, demography, and public health.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121583112432,"sku":"9781118645826","price":114.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781118645826_p0.jpg?v=1763695036","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118645826","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}