Compensation law of mortality is a paradoxical empirical observation, and it represents a challenge for methods of Survival Analysis based on proportionality assumption (proportional hazard models). The compensation law of mortality also represents a great challenge for many theories of Aging and Mortality , which usually fail to explain this phenomenon. On the other hand, the compensation law follows directly from the Reliability Theory , when the compared systems have different initial levels of Redundancy .
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