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Estimating Global and Country-Specific Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Victoria Knutson, Serge Aleshin-Guendel, Ariel Karlinsky +2
Estimating the true mortality burden of COVID-19 for every country in the world is a difficult, but crucial, public health endeavor. Attributing deaths, direct or indirect, to COVI…
Estimating the Stillbirth Rate for 195 Countries Using A Bayesian Sparse Regression Model with Temporal Smoothing
Zhengfan Wang, Miranda J. Fix, Lucia Hug +5
Estimation of stillbirth rates globally is complicated because of the paucity of reliable data from countries where most stillbirths occur. We compiled data and developed a Bayesia…
Small Area Estimation of Health Outcomes
Jon Wakefield, Taylor Okonek, Jon Pedersen
Small area estimation (SAE) entails estimating characteristics of interest for domains, often geographical areas, in which there may be few or no samples available. SAE has a long…
Child Mortality Estimation Incorporating Summary Birth History Data
Katie Wilson, Jon Wakefield
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 aims to reduce under-5 child mortality to 25 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2030. Child mortality tends to be concentrated in…
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Surveillance Data
Jon Wakefield, Tracy Qi Dong, Vladimir N. Minin
In this chapter, we consider space-time analysis of surveillance count data. Such data are ubiquitous and a number of approaches have been proposed for their analysis. We first des…