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Why Don't We Live Forever?
Author(s) -
Falk Ruma
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00372.x
Subject(s) - life expectancy , longevity , expectancy theory , demography , econometrics , population , statistics , psychology , mathematics , gerontology , social psychology , sociology , medicine
Summary The older one gets, the more one's life expectancy exceeds the population's given expectancy (at birth). Yet longevity is finite. This apparent paradox is analysed probabilistically with reference to empirical demographic data.