A practical and clarifying approach to aging and aging-related diseases Providing a thorough and extensive theoretical framework, The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness addresses the surprisingly subtle notion-with consequential biomedical and public health relevance-of what it means for a condition to be related to aging. In this pursuit, the book presents a new quantitative method to examine the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to mortality and disease incidence in a population. With input fr