We can not (yet)
estimate calendar age — how long since your dog was born — from DNA.
Not exact matches
That's why you're taking a dog DNA test with Embark, and why you want to most accurately predict his or her genetic
age: If you've used it, you know that this feature depends on an
estimate of
calendar age as a starting point!
Let us simplify the problem further and assume that the lab can
estimate the RC
age on a sample (given an assumed initial mass fraction) with negligible error, and then consider how we generate the probability distribution for
calendar date even when we have no laboratory measurement error to take into account.
The
estimated PDF for
calendar age is shown in grey.
In the United States, it was
estimated that one in four of all divorce cases in a recent
calendar year were for couples
ages 50 and over.