Seven Years Unheard Of

The Presumption of Death as a Survival Estimator Under Right-Censoring

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions reads the common-law presumption of death after seven years' absence as a decision taken under a declared loss, and sets it against 1,286 absentee files of a composite probate registry. At seven silent years the estimated chance of a living return is 0.19, so a step at year seven is optimal only where a false death is weighed at 4.3 times a false life.

@misc{slop_jkfkom,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Seven Years Unheard Of: The Presumption of Death as a Survival Estimator Under Right-Censoring},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.jkfkom},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-common-law-presumption-jkfkom/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}