Rejoinder to discussion of the paper ``Human life is unlimited -- but short

DOI10.1007/s10687-018-0325-9zbMath1402.62286MaRDI QIDQ1792624

Dmitrii Zholud, Holger Rootzén

Publication date: 12 October 2018

Published in: Extremes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10687-018-0325-9

zbMATH Keywords

truncation; censoring; generalized Pareto distribution; extreme human life lengths; Jeanne Calment; supercentenarians; age-biased sampling; limit for human lifespan

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

60G70: Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes

62G32: Statistics of extreme values; tail inference

62N05: Reliability and life testing

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