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389 | Wed, 8/6/08, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM | CC-203 |
Counting the Dead in Iraq - Topic Contributed - Papers | ||
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Section on Nonparametric Statistics, Section on Statisticians in Defense and National Security, Section on Survey Research Methods, Social Statistics Section, Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee, Biometrics Section |
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Organizer(s): David Kane, Harvard University | ||
Chair(s): Jana Asher, Carnegie Mellon | ||
10:35 AM | Iraq Data on Mortality: What Can We Believe? — Safaa R. Amer, National Opinion Research Center | |
10:55 AM | Assessing Mortality in Conflicts: A Comparison of Surveys from Iraq, Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo — Debarati Guha-Sapir, University of Louvain; Olivier Degomme, University of Louvain | |
11:15 AM | Nonviolence-Related Mortality in Iraq: Evidence from Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS) — Mohamed M. Ali, WHO-MHI | |
11:35 AM | Ethical and Data-Integrity Problems in the Second Lancet Survey of Mortality in Iraq — Michael Spagat, Royal Holloway, University of London | |
11:55 AM | Disc: David Kane, Harvard University | |
12:15 PM | Floor Discussion | |
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