Population Health Metrics

Table 1 Summary comparison metrics compared with C-RC study, Brazil, 2015 [14]

From: Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method

State	Male ₄₅q₁₅		Female ₄₅q₁₅		Male ₂₅q₆₀		Female ₂₅q₆₀
State	Equiv.	Conv.	Equiv.	Conv.	Equiv.	Conv.	Equiv.	Conv.
RMSD	0.010	0.004	0.007	0.004	0.016	0.027	0.013	0.018
Relative difference	5.2%	2.3%	7.2%	4.0%	2.5%	4.1%	2.5%	3.5%
Mean bias	+0.001	+0.001	+0.003	+0.003	+0.007	+0.007	+0.003	+0.003
States closer to C-RC	2	25	3	24	21	6	16	11
State	Male LE		Female LE		Male total deaths		Female total deaths
State	Equiv.	Conv.	Equiv.	Conv.	Equiv.	Conv.	Equiv.	Conv.
RMSD	0.51	0.61	0.41	0.61	1002	1419	834	1114
Relative difference	0.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.8%	3.7%	8.9%	4.0%	9.9%
Mean bias	−0.18	−0.15	−0.16	−0.18	+75	−286	+122	+29
States closer to C-RC	12	15	16	11	14	13	16	11

LE life expectancy, Equiv. equivalent deaths method, Conv. conventional method

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