Validation of the Symptom Pattern Method for Analyzing Verbal Autopsy Data
Figure 3
Summary Measures of Error in Population and Individual-Level Cause-of-Death Estimates, Background Cause Composition of Mortality Changed to Simulate Distribution in WHO Subregion WPR-B
Results are from the SP method and PCVA, with and without the symptoms derived from medical record recall.
(A) Average relative error in population-level CSMF estimates for WPR-B.
(B) Average absolute error in population-level CSMF estimates for simulated WPR-B data.
(C) Percent concordance (percent of deaths agreeing with gold standard) for individual-level cause of death assignments in WPR-B data.