Abstract Consideration is made of the roles of certain types of state space and time scales for a random-walk model of individual physiological status change and death. Because the actual measurement of physiological variables omits many variables relevant to survival, we are forced to view this model as operating in a stochastic state space for a population of individuals where only the frequency distributions are deterministic. In this stochastic state space, under the assumption that the “history” of prior movement contains no additional information, the forward partial differential equation is obtained for the distribution of a population whose movement in the selected space is determined by the randomwalk equations. If the initial distribution of the population in the state space is normal, then certain assumptions about movement and mortality will operate to preserve normality thereafter. Under the assumption of normality, simultaneous ordinary differential equations can be derived from the forward partial differential equation defining the distribution function. Examination of the ordinary simultaneous differential equations shows how parameters for certain models of aging and mortality can be obtained.
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