1 Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. m_baneshi@kmu.ac.ir.
2 Faculty of Medicine, Center for Longitudinal and Life Course Research, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, 4006, Australia. m_baneshi@kmu.ac.ir.
3 Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
4 Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
5 Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
6 HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
7 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
NSU studies have been applied in different countries. For example, this technique has been used in the United States to estimate the number of women who had been raped in the last year.