Rejoinder to discussion of the paper “Human life is unlimited—but short”
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Abstract
What can be learned from data about human survival at extreme age? In this rejoinder we give our views on some of the issues raised in the discussion of our paper Rootzén and Zholud (Extremes 20(4), 713–728, 2017).
Keywords
Extreme human life lengths Supercentenarians Jeanne Calment Truncation Censoring Limit for human lifespan Age-biased sampling Generalized Pareto distributionAMS 2000 Subject Classifications
62P10 62N01Notes
Acknowledgements
We thank Anthony Davison, Thomas Mikosch, and Chen Zhou for helpful comments. Research supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, grant KAW 2012.0067.
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