Child Mortality Estimation 2013: An Overview of Updates in Estimation Methods by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

Leontine Alkema; Jin Rou New; Jon Pedersen; Danzhen You; all members of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its Technical Advisory Group

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101112

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Child Mortality Estimation 2013: An Overview of Updates in Estimation Methods by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

Leontine Alkema ,

* E-mail: alkema@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Jin Rou New,

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Jon Pedersen,

Affiliation Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Oslo, Norway
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Danzhen You,

Affiliation United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, New York, United States of America
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all members of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its Technical Advisory Group

Child Mortality Estimation 2013: An Overview of Updates in Estimation Methods by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

Leontine Alkema,
Jin Rou New,
Jon Pedersen,
Danzhen You,
all members of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its Technical Advisory Group

Published: July 11, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101112

About the Authors

Leontine Alkema

* E-mail: alkema@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Jin Rou New

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Jon Pedersen

Affiliation Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Oslo, Norway

Danzhen You

Affiliation United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, New York, United States of America

all members of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its Technical Advisory Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LA JRN JP DY. Performed the experiments: LA JRN JP DY. Analyzed the data: LA JRN JP DY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LA JRN JP DY. Wrote the paper: LA JRN JP DY.

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