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Does a verbal autopsy narrative provide accurate information about treatment default for people who have died from HIV/AIDS?
Background: The South African National Cause-of-Death Validation (2017/18) project utilized the WHO 2016 standard VA questionnaire, which included both structured questions and an open narrative from the next of kin to describe the events surrounding deaths. An unexpected finding was the …
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Advances in Bayesian Factor Modeling and Scalable Gaussian Process Regression
… GP sampling. First, the FActor Regression for Verbal Autopsy (FARVA) model is developed for predicting the cause of death and cause-specific mortality fraction in low-resource settings based on verbal autopsies. Both the mean and the association between symptoms provides information used to …