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Table 7 Mean sensitivity (and 95 % uncertainty intervals) for various non-hospital deaths (MDS) and hospital deaths (PHMRC) train/test combinations for 35 train/test iterations

From: Naive Bayes classifiers for verbal autopsies: comparison to physician-based classification for 21,000 child and adult deaths

Train-test combination

NBC

OTM

MDS-MDS

0.61

0.54

(0.60,0.62)

(0.52,0.55)

PHMRC-MDS

0.50

0.41

(0.49,0.51)

(0.40,0.42)

PHMRC-PHMRC

0.46

0.40

(0.45,0.47)

(0.38,0.41)

MDS-PHMRC

0.37

0.32

(0.36,0.39)

(0.31,0.34)

  1. Note: We selected 400 records for training and testing, respectively, in each of the 35 iterations. MDS cases used in this table are non-hospital based deaths, while PHMRC are hospital-based deaths. MDS Million Death Study, PHMRC Population Health Metrics Research Consortium
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