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stat.AP2024
Bayesian analysis of verbal autopsy data using factor models with age- and sex-dependent associations between symptoms
Tsuyoshi Kunihama, Zehang Richard Li, Samuel J. Clark +1
Verbal autopsies (VAs) are extensively used to investigate the population-level distributions of deaths by cause in low-resource settings without well-organized vital statistics sy…
stat.AP2018
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…
stat.AP2016
Nonparametric Bayes models for mixed-scale longitudinal surveys
Tsuyoshi Kunihama, Carolyn T. Halpern, Amy H. Herring
Modeling and computation for multivariate longitudinal surveys have proven challenging, particularly when data are not all continuous and Gaussian but contain discrete measurements…