Rejoinder to discussion of the paper “Human life is unlimited - but short”
Journal article, 2018
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).
Extreme human life lengths
Limit for human lifespan
Supercentenarians
Censoring
Jeanne Calment
Age-biased sampling
Generalized Pareto distribution
62P10
Truncation
62N01
Author
Holger Rootzen
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
University of Gothenburg
Dmitrii Zholud
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
University of Gothenburg
Extremes
1386-1999 (ISSN) 1572915x (eISSN)
Vol. 21 3 415-424Subject Categories
Archaeology
Human Aspects of ICT
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
DOI
10.1007/s10687-018-0325-9