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. 2010 Apr 13;7(4):e1000262. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000262

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For GGB, the diagnostic is the R ² of the regression of observed death rates on implied death rates. For SEG and GGBSEG, the diagnostic is the slope of the regression of age-specific completeness estimates on age.