Mortality may refer to:
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Fish mortality, a parameter used in fisheries population dynamics to account for the loss of fish in a fish stock through death
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''Mortality'' (book), a 2012 collection of essays by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens
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Mortality (computability theory)
In computability theory, the mortality problem is a decision problem related to the halting problem. For Turing machines, the halting problem can be stated as follows:
''Given a Turing machine
A Turing machine is a mathematical model of com ...
, a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration
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Mortality rate
Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular Statistical population, population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically ...
, a measure for the rate at which deaths occur in a given population
* Mortality/differential attrition, an error in the
internal validity
Internal validity is the extent to which a piece of evidence supports a claim about cause and effect, within the context of a particular study. It is one of the most important properties of scientific studies and is an important concept in reason ...
of a scientific study
See also
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Case fatality rate
In epidemiology, case fatality rate (CFR) – or sometimes more accurately case-fatality risk – is the proportion of people who have been diagnosed with a certain disease and end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the CFR does ...
, the proportion of deaths within a designated population of people with a medical condition
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Cause of death
In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an ...
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Fulminant
Fulminant () is a medical descriptor for any event or process that occurs suddenly and escalates quickly, and is intense and severe to the point of lethality, i.e., it has an explosive character. The word comes from Latin ''fulmināre'', to strike ...
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Mortality displacement
In epidemiology, the excess deaths or excess mortality is a measure of the increase in the number of deaths during a time period and/or in a certain group, as compared to the expected value or statistical trend during a reference period (typicall ...
, a (forward) temporal shift in the rate of mortality
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Mortality salience
Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable and that all attempts to defer it indefinitely are ultimately futile.
The term derives from terror management theory, which proposes the so-called mortality salience hypothesis: ...
, awareness of one's eventual death
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Mortal (disambiguation)
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Morbidity and mortality (disambiguation)
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