Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies
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Material : Probabilistic Cause - of - death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies ∗
Department of Statistics, University of Washington Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), University of Washington Department of Sociology, University of Washington Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), University of Colorado at Boulder MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Statistical Association
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0162-1459,1537-274X
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2016.1152191