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Hypothetical errors and plateaus: A response to Newman

Newman questions recent claims about a plateau in mortality rates for Italians beyond age 105 on the basis of a hypothetical model. His model implies implausibly high error rates for extreme ages. For individuals over 110, for whom birth certificates have been collected, the form in which Italian bi...

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Autor principal: Wachter, Kenneth W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6301559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30571682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000076
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description Newman questions recent claims about a plateau in mortality rates for Italians beyond age 105 on the basis of a hypothetical model. His model implies implausibly high error rates for extreme ages. For individuals over 110, for whom birth certificates have been collected, the form in which Italian births were registered precludes the kinds of clerical errors in year of birth that Newman assumes.
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spelling pubmed-63015592018-12-31 Hypothetical errors and plateaus: A response to Newman Wachter, Kenneth W. PLoS Biol Formal Comment Newman questions recent claims about a plateau in mortality rates for Italians beyond age 105 on the basis of a hypothetical model. His model implies implausibly high error rates for extreme ages. For individuals over 110, for whom birth certificates have been collected, the form in which Italian births were registered precludes the kinds of clerical errors in year of birth that Newman assumes. Public Library of Science 2018-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6301559/ /pubmed/30571682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000076 Text en © 2018 Kenneth W. Wachter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6301559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30571682
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