The global number of centenarians should strongly increase during the 21 st century.
According to the Population Division of the United Nations it should reach more than 25 …

The educational gradient in life expectancy is well documented in the United States and in
other low-mortality countries. Highly educated Americans, on average, live longer than their …

Objective Childhood irritability, operationalized as disproportionate and frequent temper
tantrums and low frustration tolerance relative to peers, is a transdiagnostic symptom across …

Inequality in length of life is the most fundamental of all inequalities; every other type of
inequality is conditional upon being alive. As has long been recognized in studies of …

The analysis of samples of random objects that do not lie in a vector space is gaining
increasing attention in statistics. An important class of such object data is univariate …

Recent studies of old-age mortality trends assess whether longevity improvements over time
are linked to increasing compression of mortality at advanced ages. The historical backdrop …

A number of indices exist to calculate lifespan variation, each with different underlying
properties. Here, we present new formulae for the response of seven of these indices to …

This paper examines and demonstrates the importance of the adult modal age at death (M)
in longevity research. Unlike life expectancy at birth (e₀) and median age at death, M is …

Many indicators point to an increase in the life span of adults in the developed world since
the middle of the twentieth century. For example, the number of people reaching the age of …

Background Social inequality trends in life expectancy are not informative as to changes in
social disparity in the age-at-death distribution. The purpose of the study was to investigate …