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openVA

Automated Method for Verbal Autopsy

v1.2.0 · Sep 23, 2025 · GPL-2

Description

Implements multiple existing open-source algorithms for coding cause of death from verbal autopsies. The methods implemented include 'InterVA4' by Byass et al (2012) <doi:10.3402/gha.v5i0.19281>, 'InterVA5' by Byass at al (2019) <doi:10.1186/s12916-019-1333-6>, 'InSilicoVA' by McCormick et al (2016) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1152191>, 'NBC' by Miasnikof et al (2015) <doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0521-2>, and a replication of 'Tariff' method by James et al (2011) <doi:10.1186/1478-7954-9-31> and Serina, et al. (2015) <doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0527-9>. It also provides tools for data manipulation tasks commonly used in Verbal Autopsy analysis and implements easy graphical visualization of individual and population level statistics. The 'NBC' method is implemented by the 'nbc4va' package that can be installed from <https://github.com/rrwen/nbc4va>. Note that this package was not developed by authors affiliated with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and thus unintentional discrepancies may exist in the implementation of the 'Tariff' method.

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Package required but not available: ‘InSilicoVA’

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installed size is  5.3Mb
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installed package size

installed size is  5.3Mb
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installed package size

installed size is  5.3Mb
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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies InterVA5 InSilicoVA InterVA4 (>= 1.7.3) Tariff ggplot2 crayon cli rlang vacalibration openVA

Version History

new 1.2.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.2 diff Sep 23, 2025
updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1.1 diff Jan 29, 2024
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Mar 17, 2023
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.15 diff Sep 30, 2022
updated 1.0.15 ← 1.0.14 diff Aug 28, 2022
updated 1.0.14 ← 1.0.13 diff Mar 13, 2022
updated 1.0.13 ← 1.0.12 diff Sep 16, 2021
updated 1.0.12 ← 1.0.11 diff Feb 2, 2021
updated 1.0.11 ← 1.0.10 diff May 3, 2020
updated 1.0.10 ← 1.0.9 diff Apr 19, 2020
updated 1.0.9 ← 1.0.8 diff Feb 17, 2020
updated 1.0.8 ← 1.0.7 diff Feb 17, 2019
updated 1.0.7 ← 1.0.6 diff Sep 12, 2018
updated 1.0.6 ← 1.0.5 diff Aug 29, 2018
updated 1.0.5 ← 1.0.4 diff Jul 19, 2018
updated 1.0.4 ← 1.0.3 diff May 15, 2018
updated 1.0.3 ← 1.0.2 diff Jan 6, 2017
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Nov 18, 2016
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0 diff Mar 27, 2016