Is human life limited or unlimited? (A discussion of the paper by Holger Rootzén and Dmitrii Zholud)

DOI10.1007/S10687-018-0318-8zbMath1402.62269OpenAlexW2803838006MaRDI QIDQ1792617

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 12 October 2018

Published in: Extremes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/220369

zbMATH Keywords

block maxima (BM)extreme value index and endpoint estimationhuman lifespan distributionpeaks-over-threshold (POT)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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