Siu Lan Karen Cheung

Biographic Data

ID369606
NAMESiu Lan Karen Cheung
GIVEN NAMESSiu Lan Karen
FAMILY NAMECheung
SIGNATURECHEUNG S L K
AFFILIATIONSa National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS94
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX4

  • Arthur Roger Thatcher's contributions to longevity research

    Open AccessJean-Marie Robine, Jean‐marie Robine et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2010References: 25

    Arthur Roger Thatcher, CB, died in London on February 13, 2010, at 83 years of age. He was actively engaged in demographic research until his death. One of his last papers, The Compression of Deaths above the Mode, is published in this volume of Demog

  • The compression of deaths above the mode

    Open AccessA Roger Thatcher, Siu Lan Karen Cheung et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2010Cited by: 15References: 16

    Kannisto (2001) has shown that as the frequency distribution of ages at death has shifted to the right, the age distribution of deaths above the modal age has become more compressed. In order to further investigate this old-age mortality compression, we adopt the simple logistic model with two parameters, which is known to fit data on old-age mortality well (Thatcher 1999). Based on the model, we show that three key measures of old-age mortality …

  • Dissecting the compression of mortality in Switzerland, 1876-2005

    Open AccessSiu Lan Karen Cheung, Karen Siu‐Lan Cheung et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2009Cited by: 10References: 33

    This paper aims to examine changes in common longevity and variability of the adult life span, and attempts to answer whether or not the compression of mortality continues in Switzerland in the years 1876-2005. The results show that the negative relati

  • Increase in common longevity and the compression of mortality

    Siu Lan Karen Cheung, Karen Siu‐Lan Cheung et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2007Cited by: 26References: 14

    This study shows a strong increase in the modal age at death (M) in Japan over a period of 50 calendar years, accompanied by a clear decrease in the standard deviation of ages at death above M (SD(M+)) until the 1990s for men and the mid-1980s for women. For the most recent periods SD(M+) appears to have stopped decreasing, even though M has continued to increase linearly. This stagnation in SD(M+) has been accompanied by stagnation in q(M). The …

  • Three dimensions of the survival curve

    Open AccessSiu Lan Karen Cheung, Karen Siu‐Lan Cheung et al.ARTICLEDemography2005Cited by: 43References: 34

    Three dimensions of the survival curve have been developed: (1) “horizontalization,” which corresponds to how long a cohort and how many survivors can live before aging-related deaths significantly decrease the proportion of survivors; (2) “verticalization,” which corresponds to how concentrated aging-related (“normal”) deaths are around the modal age at death (M); and (3) “longevity extension,” which corresponds to how far the highest normal lif…