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. 2014 Feb 4;12:20. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-12-20

Table 5.

Cause-specific mortality fraction accuracy of computer-coded verbal autopsy methods versus physician-coded verbal autopsy reference standards

Datasets Test cases King-Lu (%) Open-source random forest (%) Open-source tariff method (%) InterVA-4 (%) Average (%)
China
400
84
79
75
N/A
79
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
400
88
73
63
N/A
75
Million Death Study
6100
96
64
33
70a
66
Agincourt
2900
94
72
38
75
70
Matlab
1600
95
69
59
72
74
Average 91 71 54 72  

aThe Million Death Study dataset used for InterVA-4 contained a sample of 552 cases, in which we attempted to extract additional InterVA-4 indicators from the narratives.