Error and bias in under-5 mortality estimates derived from birth histories with small sample sizes

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dwyer Lindgren, Laura ^a   Gakidou, Emmanuela ^a   Flaxman, Abraham ^a   Wang, Haidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAMPLING; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84880869129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-11-13     Document Type: Article

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