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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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ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

package dependencies

Package required but not available: ‘InSilicoVA’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

  installed size is  5.3Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc   4.9Mb
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Dependency Network

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

Version History

new 1.2.0 Mar 9, 2026