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stat.AP2026

An Exact Poisson Mixture Representation of Siler Remaining Life Expectancy

Silvio C. Patricio

The Siler model describes mortality from birth to old age as the sum of a declining immaturity hazard, a constant background hazard, and an increasing senescence hazard. No standar…

stat.AP2026

Rescheduled, not redefined: The moving plateau of old-age mortality

Silvio C. Patricio, Trifon I. Missov

Whether the risk of death keeps climbing at extreme ages or levels off has divided researchers for a century. We show this conflict reflects a moving target. Using cohort data from…

stat.AP2026

Evidence on Slowing Progress in Longevity -- Is it Misleading?

Silvio Patricio, Annette Baudisch

A growing literature argues that progress in human longevity is slowing, and that this slowdown may signal an approaching biological limit to lifespan. The argument rests on visibl…

stat.AP2025★ 1 cited

The Rhythm of Aging: Stability and Drift in the Individual Rate of Senescence

Silvio Cabral Patricio

Human aging is marked by a steady rise in the risk of dying with age-a process demographers call senescence. Over the past century, life expectancy has risen dramatically, but is t…

stat.AP2024

A Probabilistic Framework for Estimating the Modal Age at Death

Silvio C. Patricio, Paola Vazquez-Castillo

The modal age at death is used to track longevity, but existing methods report it as a single number. We estimate its posterior distribution. Death counts are modeled as Poisson gi…

stat.AP2023★ 1 cited

How life-table right-censoring affected the Brazilian Social Security Factor: an application of the gamma-Gompertz-Makeham model

Filipe Costa de Souza, Wilton Bernardino, Silvio Cabral Patricio

Automatic Adjustment Mechanisms (AAM) are legal instruments that help social security systems respond to demographic and economic changes. In Brazil, the Social Security Factor (SS…

stat.AP2023★ 5 cited

Makeham Mortality Models as Mixtures

Silvio C. Patricio, Trifon I. Missov

The Makeham term is a crucial element in mortality modeling, representing a constant additive hazard that addresses background mortality factors unrelated to aging. Widely used in…

stat.AP2023★ 1 cited

Improvements in Age-Specific Mortality at the Oldest Ages

Trifon I. Missov, Silvio C. Patricio, Francisco Villavicencio

Age-specific mortality improvements are non-uniform, neither across ages nor across time. We propose a two-step procedure to estimate the rates of mortality improvement (RMI) in ag…

stat.AP2023★ 3 cited

Mortality modeling at old-age: a mixture model approach

Silvio C. Patricio, Fredy Castellares, Bernardo L. Queiroz

This paper presents a novel approach for modeling mortality rates above age 70 by proposing a mixture-based model. This model is compared to four other widely used models: the Bear…