The curse of the plateau. Measuring confidence in human mortality estimates at extreme ages

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2022.01.002MaRDI QIDQ2079466zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Giovanni Camarda

Publication date 30 September 2022

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2022.01.002

zbMATH Keywords

Gompertz modellikelihood ratio testsimulationssmooth hazardsurvival analysisuncertainty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX)

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• Rejoinder to discussion of the paper ``Human life is unlimited -- but short
• Human Mortality at Extreme Ages: Data from the NLTCS and Linked Medicare Records
• The plateau of human mortality: demography of longevity pioneers

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Uses Software

• R
• gamair
• Human Mortality

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