Of pacemakers and statistics: the actuarial method extended.

Pacemakers cease functioning because of either natural battery exhaustion (nbe) or component failure (cf). A study of four series of pacemakers shows that a simple ex- tension of the actuarial method, so as to incorporate Normal statistics, makes possible a quantitative differentiation between the t...

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Published in:Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 8 - 17
Main Authors: Dussel J, Wolbarst AB, Scott-Millar RN, Obel IW
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jan1980
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