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Drosophila Life-span. In the paper “Extended Life-Span and Stress Resistance in the Drosophila Mutant Methuselah,” Y. Lin, L. Scroude, and S. Benzer studied the life-span of the methuselah strain of Drosophila fruit fly, which had been bred for increased lifespan and resistance to stress (Science, 282, pp, 943–9461, The data in the following table, read from a graph, gives the results of observing the mortality rate (fraction of flies dying per day) of 783 male methuselah flies over their life spans. Mortality rate was determined every three or four days.
Use Procedure B.1 on page B-13 to obtain a suitable regression equation for predicting mortality rate based on age.
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