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New estimates of global under-5 mortality — Authors' reply
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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.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2007-10-20. It has received 0 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Child mortality & Estimation.read more
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