Monitoring Mortality in Forced Migrants—Can Bayesian Methods Help Us to Do Better with the (Little) Data We Have?

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In crisis situations, data are scarce—Peter Heudtlass and colleagues explore ways of best understanding the extra risk of death borne by forced migrants.

Vyšlo v časopise: Monitoring Mortality in Forced Migrants—Can Bayesian Methods Help Us to Do Better with the (Little) Data We Have?. PLoS Med 12(10): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001887
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In crisis situations, data are scarce—Peter Heudtlass and colleagues explore ways of best understanding the extra risk of death borne by forced migrants.

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