A survivorship curve is a graph showing the number of members of a cohort still alive at each age, representing age-specific mortality.
Una curva di sopravvivenza è un grafico che mostra il numero di membri di una coorte ancora in vita a ogni età, rappresentando la mortalità specifica per età.
Front | survivorship curve |
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Back | A plot of the number of members of a cohort that are still alive at each age; one way to represent age-specific mortality. |
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