Decay Curves: Age Clustered Cohorts and the Bow Wave

A short, practical guide to using decay (deterioration) curves as a deterministic model — one predicted condition per age — and plotting a cohort's actual assets against that fixed trajectory.

FIELD GUIDES

Alexander Muir

7/9/20261 min read

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