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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Public Health. 2021 Jun 10;6(10):e720–e728. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00080-3

Table 2.

Mean observed, benchmark prediction, and model prediction of county-level overdose death rates per 100,000 each year from 2013 to 2018.

Observed Mean Overdose Death Rate Benchmark Prediction Mean Overdose Death Rate Negative Binomial Prediction Mean Overdose Death Rate
2013 11.8 13.0 11.8
2014 12.6 14.1 11.5
2015 13.1 14.7 12.3
2016 14.6 15.8 13.3
2017 15.4 18.0 15.1
2018 14.6 18.3 16.4