Decreasing population hazard under constant individual hazards

ID: decreasing-population-hazard-under-constant-individual-hazards

For a nonnegative random constant individual hazard , write . The population survivor function is and its hazard is . Under the integrability needed to differentiate, , so
The conditional distribution is weighted by . This proves decreasing population hazard without any decrease in individual hazards and explains survival selection in a heterogeneous population.

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