Human Mortality 'Plateau' May Be a Statistical Error, Not a Hint of Immortality (IMAGE)

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Human Mortality 'Plateau' May Be a Statistical Error, Not a Hint of Immortality

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Late-life mortality plateaus are generated if symmetrical errors (coloured points) are seeded into error-free log-linear models (black line).

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Saul Justin Newman

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