Computation of Human Lifespan with a Weibull Distribution

Jonah Ringy Mahevahaja, Tovohery Josoa Michel

Abstract: This article proposes to calculate the lifespan of a given human population after making an adjustment with a three - parameter Weibull distribution. A new approach to calculating Weibull distribution parameters is illustrated with real data processing. The latter is then compared with the methods proposed by Cran and David.

Keywords: Human lifespan, Weibull distribution, Kolmogorov ? Smirnov goodness - of - fit test