Child Mortality Estimation: Methods Used to Adjust for Bias due to AIDS in Estimating Trends in Under-Five Mortality

Neff Walker; Kenneth Hill; Fengmin Zhao

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001298

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Child Mortality Estimation: Methods Used to Adjust for Bias due to AIDS in Estimating Trends in Under-Five Mortality

Neff Walker,

Affiliation Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Kenneth Hill ,

* E-mail: kenneth_hill_1@yahoo.com

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Fengmin Zhao

Affiliation Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Child Mortality Estimation: Methods Used to Adjust for Bias due to AIDS in Estimating Trends in Under-Five Mortality

Neff Walker,
Kenneth Hill,
Fengmin Zhao

Published: August 28, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001298

About the Authors

Neff Walker

Affiliation Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kenneth Hill

* E-mail: kenneth_hill_1@yahoo.com

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fengmin Zhao

Affiliation Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: KH NW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KH NW. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: NW KH FZ. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: NW KH FZ. Conceived the analysis: NW. Collaborated on design of the analysis: KH. Performed the analysis: KH FZ. Analyzed the results: NW KH.

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