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Thomas Laakso
Researcher at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Publications - 2
Citations - 270
Thomas Laakso is an academic researcher from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Child mortality. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 266 citations.
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Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed new reproducible methods and reanalyse existing data to elucidate detailed time trends, and then applied Loess regression to estimate past trends and forecast to 2015 for 172 countries.
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New estimates of global under-5 mortality — Authors' reply
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to analyse systematically all internationally avail able data on child mortality and to introduce new methods to estimate trends and uncertainty in the risk of child death worldwide, and also proposed a formal method to estimate uncertainty in their estimates even those based on surveys done within the last year or so.