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Discrete-time survival analysis with survey weights: a case study of age at child death in Sierra Leone

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By Fundiswa Pearl, Jesca Mercy
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BMC Public Health, Aug 2023 Child death rates are often regarded as reliable indicators for overall welfare of a country since they give insight of health accessibility and development. For planning and controlling purposes, it is important to understand which ages are at higher risks of experiencing child death as well as determinants thereof. We used the Sierra Leone DHS 2019 data which was collected using two stage sampling methods.
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Discrete-time survival analysis with survey weights: a case study of age at child death in Sierra Leone - BMC Public Health

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By Fundiswa Pearl, Jesca Mercy
| Biomed Central (BMC)
Discrete survival and hazard function For a discrete-time survival analysis, the time scale is subdivided into \(n\) intervals \(\left\{{I}_{t}=\left[{a}_{t-1},{a}_{t}\right)\right\}\) with \({a}_{0}<{a}_{1}<...<{a}_{n}<\infty .\) Censoring and occurrence of event is assumed to happen at the end of the intervals, and the intervals do not necessarily have the same length.
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