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Testing for differences in distribution tails to test for differences in 'maximum' lifespan

BACKGROUND: Investigators are actively testing interventions intended to increase lifespan and wish to test whether the interventions increase maximum lifespan. Based on the fact that one cannot be assured of observing population maximum lifespans in finite samples, in previous work, we constructed...

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Autores principales: Gao, Guimin, Wan, Wen, Zhang, Sijian, Redden, David T, Allison, David B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2529340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18655712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-8-49