Human life is unlimited -- but short

DOI10.1007/s10687-017-0305-5zbMath1387.62120arXiv1708.02184WikidataQ59611522 ScholiaQ59611522MaRDI QIDQ1693604

Holger Rootzén, Dmitrii Zholud

Publication date: 31 January 2018

Published in: Extremes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02184

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Pareto distribution; size-biased sampling; force of mortality; extreme human life lengths; future record ages; IDL; Jeanne Calment; limit for human life span; no influence of genetic background on survival at extreme age; no influence of lifestyle on survival at extreme age; supercentenarians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62N01: Censored data models

60G70: Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes

62G32: Statistics of extreme values; tail inference

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