Demonstrating the robustness of population surveillance data: implications of error rates on demographic and mortality estimates.

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Published in BMC Med Res Methodol on March 25, 2008

Authors

Edward Fottrell1, Peter Byass, Yemane Berhane

Author Affiliations

1: Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden. edwardfottrell@yahoo.co.uk

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