Improving the estimation of educational attainment: New methods for assessing average years of schooling from binned data

• Joseph Friedman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: josephfriedman@mednet.ucla.edu

  Affiliations David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5225-3267

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• Nicholas Graetz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Emmanuela Gakidou

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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