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+[This paper](http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/de/content/forschung/publikationen/forschungsberichte/Life-Table-Forecasting.pdf) by Peter Pflaumer gives a bit more technical detail to the whole Gompertz/Gumbel lifespan thing.
+I need to remember that my model works, I just need a stable way of estimating the model parameters from which to start optimizing a fit.
+Pflaumer derives a formula for the mode, but it is still trancendental in the force scaling parameter.
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+Hmm, I should see what Garrett thinks of the [economics](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.insmatheco.2006.02.012) of this distribution, since that's what it was originally developed for.
+He probably already knows all about it, why didn't I think to ask last weekend?
+Ah, because I started this on Sunday and saw him on Saturday :p.
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+I though [this](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2003.12.030) aught to do it for me, but it seems their rate has an extra `-ln(P)` in it.
+Rats.
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+Desperate times call for going back to [Gompertz' original paper](http://www.jstor.org/stable/107756).
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