openVA

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Automated Method for Verbal Autopsy

Zehang Richard Li

Last update: 29 January 2024

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Software version identifier: 1.1.1, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.0.10, 1.0.11, 1.0.12, 1.0.13, 1.0.14, 1.0.15, 1.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.2

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/openVA

Description

Implements multiple existing open-source algorithms for coding cause of death from verbal autopsies. The methods implemented include 'InterVA4' by Byass et al (2012) <doi:10.3402/gha.v5i0.19281>, 'InterVA5' by Byass at al (2019) <doi:10.1186/s12916-019-1333-6>, 'InSilicoVA' by McCormick et al (2016) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1152191>, 'NBC' by Miasnikof et al (2015) <doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0521-2>, and a replication of 'Tariff' method by James et al (2011) <doi:10.1186/1478-7954-9-31> and Serina, et al. (2015) <doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0527-9>. It also provides tools for data manipulation tasks commonly used in Verbal Autopsy analysis and implements easy graphical visualization of individual and population level statistics. The 'NBC' method is implemented by the 'nbc4va' package that can be installed from <https://github.com/rrwen/nbc4va>. Note that this package was not developed by authors affiliated with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and thus unintentional discrepancies may exist in the implementation of the 'Tariff' method.

Cites work

• Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies
• Strengthening standardised interpretation of verbal autopsy data: the new InterVA-4 tool
• An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model
• Naive Bayes classifiers for verbal autopsies: comparison to physician-based classification for 21,000 child and adult deaths
• Performance of the Tariff Method: validation of a simple additive algorithm for analysis of verbal autopsies
• Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies

Cited In (2)

• Using Bayesian latent Gaussian graphical models to infer symptom associations in verbal autopsies
• An Expectation Conditional Maximization Approach for Gaussian Graphical Models

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