Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: Multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Flaxman, Abraham D ^a   Vahdatpour, Alireza ^a   Green, Sean ^b   James, Spencer L ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause of death certification; Machine learning; Random forests; Validation; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; CHILD HEALTH; COMPUTER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH WORKER; NEONATE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM FOREST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL AUTOPSY;

EID: 80052390407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-29     Document Type: Article

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