Data-driven methods for imputing national-level incidence in global burden of disease studies

• Main Authors: Scott A McDonald (Author), Brecht Devleesschauwer (Author), Niko Speybroeck (Author), Niel Hens (Author), Nicolas Praet (Author), Paul R Torgerson (Author), Arie H Havelaar (Author), Felicia Wu (Author), Marlène Tremblay (Author), Ermias W Amene (Author), Dörte Döpfer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective To develop transparent and reproducible methods for imputing missing data on disease incidence at national-level for the year 2005. Methods We compared several models for imputing missing country-level incidence rates for two foodborne diseases - congenital toxoplasmosis and aflatoxin-rela...