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Is there a cap on longevity? A statistical review
Léo R. Belzile, Anthony C. Davison, Jutta Gampe +2
There is sustained and widespread interest in understanding the limit, if any, to the human lifespan. Apart from its intrinsic and biological interest, changes in survival in old a…
Human mortality at extreme age
Léo R. Belzile, Anthony C. Davison, Holger Rootzén +1
We use a combination of extreme value theory, survival analysis and computer-intensive methods to analyze the mortality of Italian and French semi-supercentenarians for whom there…
Human life is unlimited - but short
Holger Rootzén, Dmitrii Zholud
Does the human lifespan have an impenetrable biological upper limit which ultimately will stop further increase in life lengths? This question is important for understanding aging,…