Probabilistic methods for verbal autopsy interpretation: InterVA robustness in relation to variations in A Priori probabilities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Fottrell, Edward ^a,b   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,c   Tollman, Stephen ^a,c   Byass, Peter ^a,c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; INTERVA; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOUTH AFRICA; HUMAN; SPEECH;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH;

EID: 80455174328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027200     Document Type: Article

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