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Verbal Autopsy in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: The Symptom-Cause Information Archive
Samuel J. Clark, Martin W. Bratschi, Philip Setel +6
The burden of disease is fundamental to understanding, prioritizing, and monitoring public health interventions. Cause of death is required to calculate the burden of disease, but…
Modeling the social media relationships of Irish politicians using a generalized latent space stochastic blockmodel
Tin Lok James Ng, Thomas Brendan Murphy, Ted Westling +2
Dáil Éireann is the principal chamber of the Irish parliament. The 31st Dáil Éireann is the principal chamber of the Irish parliament. The 31st Dáil was in session from March 11th,…
Quantifying the Contributions of Training Data and Algorithm Logic to the Performance of Automated Cause-assignment Algorithms for Verbal Autopsy
Samuel J. Clark, Zehang Li, Tyler H. McCormick
A verbal autopsy (VA) consists of a survey with a relative or close contact of a person who has recently died. VA surveys are commonly used to infer likely causes of death for indi…
Bayesian factor models for probabilistic cause of death assessment with verbal autopsies
Tsuyoshi Kunihama, Zehang Richard Li, Samuel J. Clark +1
The distribution of deaths by cause provides crucial information for public health planning, response, and evaluation. About 60% of deaths globally are not registered or given a ca…
Reactive point processes: A new approach to predicting power failures in underground electrical systems
Şeyda Ertekin, Cynthia Rudin, Tyler H. McCormick
Reactive point processes (RPPs) are a new statistical model designed for predicting discrete events in time based on past history. RPPs were developed to handle an important proble…
Latent demographic profile estimation in hard-to-reach groups
Tyler H. McCormick, Tian Zheng
The sampling frame in most social science surveys excludes members of certain groups, known as hard-to-reach groups. These groups, or subpopulations, may be difficult to access (th…