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A Beta Regression Framework with Intentional Left-Censoring for Quantifying Familial Longevity

2026-01-15 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Defining and quantifying exceptional familial human survival is a persistent challenge in longevity research. Traditional approaches rely on binary thresholds, arbitrary cutoffs, or simple descriptive measures, which discard information on variation among the oldest individuals, ignore differences in background mortality, and yield unstable family-level summaries. We propose a principled, model-based framework that transforms survival times into percentiles relative to population life tables, st...

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