Volume 38 - Article 32 | Pages 879–896  

Estimating mortality from external causes using data from retrospective surveys: A validation study in Niakhar (Senegal)

By Gilles Pison, Bruno Masquelier, Almamy Malick Kante, Cheikh Tidiane Ndiaye, Laetitia Douillot, Géraldine Duthé, Cheikh Sokhna, Valerie Delaunay, Stephane Helleringer

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