background and aims: recent studies on mortality in iran, in recent years clearly emphasize that unintentional injuries are the main cause of reducing iranian life expectancy in iran. this article aimed to assess the role of major causes of death for mortality patterns in the country by sex in 2010. methods: experimental results of this study are based on death registration system of ministry o...

Understanding how and why insect numbers fluctuate through time and space has been a central theme in ecological research for more than a century. Life tables have been used to understand temporal and spatial patterns in insect numbers. In this study, we estimated cause-of-death probabilities for phytophagous insects using multiple decrement life tables and the irreplaceable mortality analytic ...

Planners in public and private institutions would like coherent forecasts of the components of age-specific mortality, such as causes of death. This has been difficult to achieve because the relative values of the forecast components often fail to behave in a way that is coherent with historical experience. In addition, when the group forecasts are combined the result is often incompatible with...

Background and aims: Recent studies on mortality in Iran, in recent years clearly emphasize that unintentional injuries are the main cause of reducing Iranian life expectancy in Iran. This article aimed to assess the role of major causes of death for mortality patterns in the country by sex in 2010. Methods: Experimental results of this study are based on...