Model life tables for the larger old world monkeys: A revision
Gage, T.B.; Dyke, B.
American journal of primatology 29(4): 287-290
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0275-2565 PMID: 31941181 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350290405Document Number: 247618
We report a change in the method of averaging parameters of the Siler mortality model fitted to a series of Old World monkey survivorship schedules. Substitution of geometric for arithmetic means of multipliers of exponential terms avoids incorrect weighting of parameters. These changes have minor effects on the composite standard mortality schedule for these animals originally described in 1988. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.