Estimating excess deaths in Iraq since the US—British-led invasion |
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| Authors: | Scott L. Zeger |
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| Affiliation: | The Frank Hurley-Catharine Dorrier Professor and Chair and Elizabeth Johnson is Research Associate in Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
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No-one knows how many Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion of their country. Surveys published in The Lancet in 2004 and 2006 estimated the number at 10 times figures previously given. Predictably, they raised a storm of protest. Politicians attacked the surveys; public media gave their own spin. Here Scott Zeger and Elizabeth Johnson , statistical analysts of the surveys, discuss these and other attempts to count the dead, and how statistical messages should be best communicated. |
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