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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A statistical table exhibiting the probable proportion of persons who will live to reach different ages.
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And you know a good deal about the question of sufficient power is that to avoid a Type I or Type II error; choice of endpoints; intention to treat vs actual treatment received; censored data; Kaplan-Meir or life-table analyses; data dredging; alternative biostatistical approaches and their respective +s/-s.
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Using a variant of life-table techniques, they have developed a measure called years of potential life lost YPLL.
The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997
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Peeters A, Barendregt JJ, Willekens F, Mackenbach JP, Al Mamun A, et al. (2003) Obesity in adulthood and its consequences for life expectancy: a life-table analysis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Donal O'Shea et al. 2010
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Aphid performance did not differ between Bt and non-Bt cotton plants and none of the aphid life-table parameters assessed was influenced by the expression of the
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A. gossypii on Bt and non-Bt cotton plants showed a variation in some life-table parameters among three consecutive generations
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DALYs are calculated using a multi-state, multiple cohort life-table approach to determine changes in mortality and morbidity for five physical activity-related diseases: ischaemic heart disease, ischaemic stroke, type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, and colon cancer.
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Linda J. Cobiac et al. 2009
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The following aphid life-table parameters were obtained this way: nymphal developmental time (time from birth to first nymphal production; D), number of nymphs produced during a time span equal to D starting at nymph production (FD), mean reproductive rate during the reproductive period observed (daily fecundity; DF), total fecundity per female during the period observed (TF), adult longevity
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Bt protein and we examined several aphid life-table parameters,.
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More research will be needed to resolve these conflicting views, and participants in the CTFS / SIGEO network of more than 30 forest dynamics plots in 17 countries hope that researchers will take advantage of standardized life-table data from more than 6,500 tree species to understand the patterns of biological diversity across the world.
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The impact of 5-ASA exposure on the subsequent development of advanced neoplasia (high-grade dysplasia or CRC) was assessed using life-table methods.
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