The effect of misclassification error on reported cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsy.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on October 01, 1997

Authors

M Anker1

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Emerging and other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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