Blog Updates for October 2014

October 31, 2014. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we added: Life Span Rule of Thumb. A rule of thumb is that a person's life span given their current age is the average of their current age and the maximum lifespan of a human. 100 is used as the maximum life span in this calculation even though there are people who live beyond this. The following article shows that his heuristic gives a fairly good approxiation to the life tables for ages 65 yo 95. [decision sciences article]