May 29, 2016
Life expectancy quiz answers
For Wednesday’s quiz:
Remaining life expectancy for NZ men gets down to five years between ages 85 and 90. That’s true for men and women, and for Māori and for non-Māori, and for Pasifika. (tables here) — the differences in life expectancy at birth have gone away by that age.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »