Research Project
Researchers: Professor Adrian Barnett , Professor Nicholas Graves , Professor Nicholas Graves
Full description
The Famous Musicians Mortality Study is an analysis into whether there is a true increase in risk of death for musicians at age 27, using a retrospective cohort of famous musicians, solo artists and band members included. Participants included musicians who had a number one album in the United Kingdom between 1956 (when the UK charts began) and 2007.
The R Project for Statistical Computing: R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics (for UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS).
uri :
http://www.r-project.org/
The Human Mortality Database: Death rates per 100 person years in the UK population by decade of birth were used for comparison in this research.
uri :
http://www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/country.php?cntr=GBR&level=2
Data time period: 31 07 2011 to 20 12 2011
- Local : 10378.3/8085/1018.13411