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Maximum Age


The maximum age sets the number of age classes in an Age Matrix for parameters that are age-specific.  Thus, in the following age matrix, 5 age classes are present:

11  12  13  14  15
     11  12  13  14
         11  12  13
             11  12
                 11

while the following age matrix only uses 2 age classes.

11  12  12  12  12
     11  12  12  12
         11  12  12
             11  12
                 11

A Constant Matrix can be thought of as only having a single age class, i.e., all ages have the same parameter value.