A method for reclassifying cause of death in cases categorized as “event of undetermined intent”

Table 4 Errors in estimating the total number of events in the training set by three causes of death, and percentage of reclassified events undetermined intent

	Relative error in prediction of the total number of actual cause of events (percent)			Percent of unclassified events of undetermined intent
	Non-transport accidents	Suicide	Homicide	Percent of unclassified events of undetermined intent
No lower limit	−17	4	59	0
ECP ≥ 0.5	−16	5	56	3
ECP ≥ 0.6	−14	5	50	10
ECP ≥ 0.7	−11	6	38	26
ECP ≥ 0.75	−9	6	31	38
ECP ≥ 0.8	−7	6	24	49
ECP ≥ 0.85	−5	6	16	62
ECP ≥ 0.9	−2	5	5	75

Note: Relative error in predicting the total number of actual cause of death is equal (D ^P_i − D ^A_i )/D ^A_i

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