Material : Probabilistic Cause - of - death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies ∗
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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 of the Witwatersrand ALPHA Network, London INDEPTH Network, Ghana London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Karonga HDSS, Malawi Correspondence to: [email protected]
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