Primary Teaching Areas

• Biostatistics
• Methods of Demographic Analysis

Selected Publications

• Thatcher AR, Cheung SLK, Horiuchi S, and Robine, JM. The compression of deaths above the mode. Demographic Research 2010; 22:505-538.
• Horiuchi S, Wilmoth JR, and Pletcher S. A decomposition method based on a model of continuous change. Demography, 2008; 45(4):785-801.
• Glei D, Horiuchi S. The narrowing sex gap in life expectancy: Effects of sex differences in the age pattern of mortality. Population Studies, 2007; 61(2):141-159.
• Horiuchi S. Causes of death among the oldest-old: Distributions and age variations. In: Robine JM, Crimmins E, Horiuchi S, Zeng Y, eds., Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population. Springer, pp.215-235, 2006.
• Horiuchi S, Finch C, Mesle F, and Vallin J. Differential patterns of age-related mortality increase in middle age and old age. Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, 2003; 58A(6):495-507.
• Horiuchi S. Interspecies comparison of life span distribution: Humans versus invertebrates. In: Carey J, Tuljapurkar S, eds., Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological and Demographic Perspectives, (Population and Development Review, Special Supplement to Volume 29), pp. 127-151, 2003.

Education

• BA, Keio University, 1970
• MA, Keio University, 1972
• PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1981