Measuring causes of death in populations: A new metric that corrects cause-specific mortality fractions for chance

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Flaxman, Abraham D ^a   Serina, Peter T ^a   Hernandez, Bernardo ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Riley, Ian ^b   Lopez, Alan D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BASELINE SURVEY; CAUSE OF DEATH; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TESTING METHOD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY FRACTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84944032398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-015-0061-1     Document Type: Article

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