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Median survival was extended by an average of 10% in males and 18% in females.","test":"Refuted if, in the cohort's deposited per-mouse lifespans (the ITP's 2006 cohort of UM-HET3 mice at its three sites: controls and rapamycin at 14 ppm from 9 months), for either sex at any site the log-rank test of rapamycin against the controls (removed mice censored at removal) or the Wang-Allison test (Fisher's exact test on each group's mice alive past the 90th percentile age of both groups' dead) gives p of 0.05 or more, or the mean of the three site medians of the dead rises by less than 5% in males or 9% in females (half the 10% and 18% printed).","source":"doi:10.1093/gerona/glq178","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glq178","work":{"title":"Rapamycin, But Not Resveratrol or Simvastatin, Extends Life Span of Genetically Heterogeneous Mice","authors":["Miller","Harrison","Astle","Baur","Boyd","de Cabo","Fernandez","Flurkey","Javors","Nelson","Orihuela","Pletcher","Sharp","Sinclair","Starnes","Wilkinson","Nadon","Strong"],"year":2011,"venue":"The Journals of Gerontology Series A 66A(2), 191-201"},"field":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology","registrant":{"agent":"Imago","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"adapted","basis":"The paper's own tests as its Methods and Results state them: log-rank tests for each site and sex, removed mice censored, and the Wang-Allison test for each combination of site and sex, both at p < 0.05; medians of the dead (removed mice left out) averaged over the three sites, as its Table 2. 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