References

Arthur Roger Thatcher's contributions to longevity research: A Reflexion
Jean-Marie Robine, Siu Lan Karen CHEUNG, Shiro Horiuchi
Demographic Research, Volume 22, Article 18

Anonymous (1986). Retirement: Mr. A.R. Thatcher CB. Population Trends 46: 13-14.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Canudas-Romo, V. (2008). The modal age at death and the shifting mortality hypothesis. Demographic Research 19(30): 1179-1204. [ doi:10.4054/DemRes. 2008.19.30 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Canudas-Romo, V. (2010). Three measures of longevity: time trends and record values. Demography 47(2) (forthcoming).
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Cheung, S.L.K. (2003). Scalar expansion and normal longevity in Hong Kong. [PhD Thesis]. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Cheung, S.L.K. and Robine, J.-M. (2007). Increase in common longevity and the compression of mortality: The case of Japan. Population Studies 61(1): 85-97. [ doi:10.1080/00324720601103833 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Cheung, S.L.K., Robine, J.-M., and Caselli, G. (2008). The use of cohort and period data to analyze change in normal longevity in low mortality countries. Genus LXIV(1-2): 101-129.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Cheung, S.L.K., Robine, J.-M., Paccaud, F., and Marazzi, A. (2009). Dissecting the compression of mortality in Switzerland, 1876-2005. Demographic Research 21(19): 569-598. [ doi:10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.19 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Cheung, S.L.K., Robine, J.-M., Tu, E.J.C., and Caselli, G. (2005). Three dimension of the survival curve: Horizontalization, verticalization, and longevity extension. Demography 42(2): 243-258. [ doi:10.1353/dem.2005.0012 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Cutler, R.G. (1985). Biology of aging and longevity. Gerontologica Biomedica Acta 1: 35-61.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Fries, J.F. (1980). Aging, natural death, and the compression of morbidity. The New England Journal of Medicine 303(3): 130-135.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Gompertz, B. (1825). On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London 115: 513-585. [ doi:10.1098/rstl.1825.0026 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Hayflick, L. (1994). All you ever wanted to know about aging but were afraid to ask: How and why we age. New York: Ballantine Books.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Horiuchi, S. (2003). Interspecies differences in the life span distribution: Humans versus invertebrates. In: Carey, J.R. and Tuljapurkar, S. (eds.). Population and Development Review 29(Supplement). : 127-151.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Humphrey, G.T. (1970). Mortality at the oldest ages. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries 96: 105-119. [ http://www.actuaries.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/19956/0105-0119.pdf ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Kannisto, V. (1988). On the survival of centenarians and the span of life. Population Studies 42(3): 389-406. [ doi:10.1080/0032472031000143546 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Kannisto, V. (1994). Development of oldest-old mortality, 1950-1990: Evidence from 28 developed countries. Odense: Odense University Press (Monographs on Population Aging, 1).
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Kannisto, V. (1996). The advancing frontier of survival life tables for old age. Odense: Odense University Press (Monographs on Population Aging, 3).
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Kannisto, V. (2000). Measuring the compression of mortality. Demographic Research 3(6). [ doi:10.4054/DemRes.2000.3.6 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Kannisto, V. (2001). Mode and dispersion of the length of life. Population: An English Selection 13(1): 159-171.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Kannisto, V. (2006). Central and dispersion indicators of individual life duration: New methods. In: Robine, J.-M., Crimmins, E.M., Horiuchi, S., and Zeng, Y. (eds.). Human longevity, individual life duration, and the growth of the oldest-old population. Springer Netherlands: 111-129. [ doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4848-7_5 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Kannisto, V., Lauristen, J., Thatcher, A.R., and Vaupel, J.W. (1994). Reductions in mortality at advanced ages: Several decades of evidence from 27 countries. Population and Development Review 20(4): 793-810. [ doi:10.2307/2137662 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Laslett, P. (1999). The bewildering history of the history of longevity. In: Jeune, B. and Vaupel, J.W. (eds.). Validation of exceptional longevity. Odense: Odense University Press: 23-40.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Lexis, W. (1878). Sur la durée normale de la vie humaine et sur la théorie de la stabilité des rapports statistiques. Annales de Démographie Internationale 2(5): 447-460.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Maier, H., Gampe, J., Jeune, B., Robine, J.-M., and Vaupel, J.W. (2010). Supercentenarians. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (Springer Demographic Research Monographs. 1st edition).
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Makeham, W.M. (1860). On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries and Assurance Magazine 8: 301-310.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Redington, F.M. (1969). An exploration into patterns of mortality. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries 95: 243-317. [ http://www.actuaries.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/25740/0243-0317.pdf ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Robine, J.-M. and Saito, Y. (2009). The number of centenarians in Europe. European papers on the New Welfare – the counter-ageing society 13, October 2009 – Steps towards the European Welfare: 47-62. [ http://www.newwelfare.org/eng/wp-content/pdf/n13.pdf ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Rosenbaum, S. (2001). Precursors of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician) 50(4): 457-466. [ doi:10.1111/1467-9884.00290 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1971). British Labour Statistics: Historical Abstract 1886-1968. London: HMSO.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1976). The Station Stones at Stonehenge. Antiquity 50(198): 144-146.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1978). Five integers which sum in pairs to squares. The Mathematical Gazette 62(419): 25-29. [ doi:10.2307/3617620 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1981). Centenarians. Population Trends 25: 11-14.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1982). Newtonian cosmology and Friedman’s equation. European Journal of Physics 3(4): 202-205. [ doi:10.1088/0143-0807/3/4/002 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1983). How many people have ever lived on earth? In: 44th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Madrid, September 1983. Contributed papers 2: 841-843.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1992). Trends in numbers and mortality at high ages in England and Wales. Population Studies 46(3): 411-426. [ doi:10.1080/0032472031000146426 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1997). Trends and prospects at very high ages. In: Charlton, J. and Murphy, M. (eds.). The health of adult Britain 1841-1994. London: The Stationery Office (Volumes 1 and 2).
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1999a). The demography of centenarians in England and Wales. Population Trends 96: 5-12.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1999b). Katherine Plunket: A well documented supercentenarian in 1930. In: Jeune, B. and Vaupel, J.W. (eds.). Validation of exceptional longevity. Odense: Odense University Press: 135-138.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (1999c). The long-term pattern of adult mortality and the highest attained age. Journal of Royal Statistic Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 162(1): 5-43. [ doi:10.1111/1467-985X.00119 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (2001). The demography of centenarians in England and Wales. Population and Development Review 13(1): 139-156. [ http://www.jstor.org/stable/3030263 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R. (2010). The growth of high ages in England and Wales 1635-2106. In: Maier, H., Gampe, J., Jeune, B., Robine, J.-M., and Vaupel, J.W. (eds.). Supercentenarians. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (Springer Demographic Research Monographs. 1st edition).
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R., Cheung, S.L.K., Horiuchi, S., and Robine, J.-M. (2010). The Compression of deaths above the mode. Demographic Research 22(17): 505-538. [ doi:10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.17 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Thatcher, A.R., Kannisto, V., and Vaupel, J.W. (1998). The force of mortality at ages 80 to 120. Odense: Odense University Press (Monographs on Population Aging, 5).
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Vaupel, J.W. (2002). Dr. Väinö Kannisto: A Reflexion. Demographic Research 6(5): 87-90. [ doi:10.4054/DemRes.2002.6.5 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Vaupel, J.W., Carey, J.R., Christensen, K., Johnson, T.E., Yashin, A.I., Holm, N.V., Iachine, I.A., Kannisto, V., Khazaeli, A.A., Liedo, P., Longo, V.D., Zeng, Y., Manton, K.G., and Curtsinger, J.W. (1998). Biodemographic trajectories of longevity. Science 280(5365): 855-860. [ doi:10.1126/science.280.5365.855 ]
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Vaupel, J.W. and Jeune, B. (1995). The emergence and proliferation of centenarians. In: Jeune, B. and Vaupel, J.W. (eds.). Exceptional longevity: From prehistory to the present. Odense: Odense University Press: 109-116 (Monographs on population Aging, 2).
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]

Walford, R. (1983). Maximum Life Span. New York: WW Norton & Company.
[ Download reference in RIS | BibTeX format ]