Changes in the spatial distribution of the under-five mortality rate: Small-area analysis of 122 DHS surveys in 262 subregions of 35 countries in Africa

• Zehang Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zehang Li, Yuan Hsiao, Jessica Godwin, Bryan D. Martin, Jon Wakefield, Samuel J. Clark

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

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9551-9638

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• Yuan Hsiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zehang Li, Yuan Hsiao, Jessica Godwin, Bryan D. Martin, Jon Wakefield, Samuel J. Clark

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8342-4938

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• Jessica Godwin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zehang Li, Yuan Hsiao, Jessica Godwin, Bryan D. Martin, Jon Wakefield, Samuel J. Clark

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Bryan D. Martin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zehang Li, Yuan Hsiao, Jessica Godwin, Bryan D. Martin, Jon Wakefield, Samuel J. Clark

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Jon Wakefield ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zehang Li, Yuan Hsiao, Jessica Godwin, Bryan D. Martin, Jon Wakefield, Samuel J. Clark

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ Senior authors.

  Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Samuel J. Clark ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zehang Li, Yuan Hsiao, Jessica Godwin, Bryan D. Martin, Jon Wakefield, Samuel J. Clark

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: work@samclark.net

  ¶‡ Senior authors.

  Affiliations Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4929-6231

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• with support from the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its technical advisory group

  ¶Membership list can be found in the Acknowledgments section.

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