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. 2018 Dec 20;16(12):e3000076.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000076. eCollection 2018 Dec.

Hypothetical errors and plateaus: A response to Newman

Kenneth W Wachter  1
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Hypothetical errors and plateaus: A response to Newman

Kenneth W Wachter. PLoS Biol. .

Abstract

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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