BACKGROUND Since the 1950s, many indirect or semi-indirect methods have been
developed to either adjust mortality estimates or generate complete life tables from mortality …

The article focuses on mortality models with a random effect applied in order to evaluate
human mortality more precisely. Such models are called frailty or Cox models. The main …

Four mathematical models for the prediction of bacterial growth rate; Blackman, Monod,
Moser, Powell models are examined in this paper. The objectives of this study is to estimate …

The end of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic is near in some countries as
declared by World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2022 based on some studies in …

This paper provides some introductory remarks to critical biometric aspects underlying risk
identification and risk assessment for life annuity portfolios and pension funds. On the one …

Raw mortality data often exhibit irregular patterns due to randomness. Graduation refers to
the act of smoothing crude mortality rates. In this paper, we propose a flexible and robust …

In this thesis we propose models for estimating and projecting mortality rates using adaptive
splines. Mortality modelling has various applications from social planning to insurance …

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There is a demand in forest management for reliable estimation of growth and yield
parameters with biologically realistic models. Theoretical nonlinear biological models are …