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Table 5 Cause-specific mortality fraction accuracy of computer-coded verbal autopsy methods versus physician-coded verbal autopsy reference standards

From: Performance of four computer-coded verbal autopsy methods for cause of death assignment compared with physician coding on 24,000 deaths in low- and middle-income countries

Datasets

Test cases

King-Lu (%)

Open-source random forest (%)

Open-source tariff method (%)

InterVA-4 (%)

Average (%)

China

400

84

79

75

N/A

79

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

400

88

73

63

N/A

75

Million Death Study

6100

96

64

33

70a

66

Agincourt

2900

94

72

38

75

70

Matlab

1600

95

69

59

72

74

Average

91

71

54

72

 
  1. aThe Million Death Study dataset used for InterVA-4 contained a sample of 552 cases, in which we attempted to extract additional InterVA-4 indicators from the narratives.