Modeling Structure and Country-specific Heterogeneity in Misclassification Matrices of Verbal Autopsy-based Cause of Death Classifiers

Sandipan Pramanik, Scott Zeger, Dianna Blau +1

Verbal autopsy (VA) algorithms are routinely used to determine individual-level causes of death (COD) in many low-and-middle-income countries, which are then aggregated to derive p…