Target Setting to Reduce Infant Mortality Across Indian States: A Statistical Approach

Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States

Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the subsequent child in the same family (a scarrin...

A statistical approach to classify Skype traffic

Abstract- Skype is one of the most powerful and high-quality chat tools that allows its users to use of many services such as: transferring audio, sending messages, video conferencing and audio for free. Skype traffic has a lot of Internet traffic. Hence, Internet service providers need to identify traffic to do the quality of service and network management. On the other hand, Skype developers ...

Using the Perinatal Periods of Risk Approach to Reduce Feto-Infant Mortality:

A Value Efficiency-Based Target Setting Approach in Data Envelopment Analysis

Basic models of Data Envelopment Analysis are intrinsically preference-free, in the sense that they consider all inputs and outputs and also all decision making units of the same importance. Although this property is beneficial in many ways, it has some drawbacks simultaneously, as the decision makers’ preferences are not taken into account in the process of evaluating units.  To overcome this ...

American Indian and Alaska Native infant and pediatric mortality, United States, 1999-2009.

OBJECTIVES We described American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) infant and pediatric death rates and leading causes of death. METHODS We adjusted National Vital Statistics System mortality data for AI/AN racial misclassification by linkage with Indian Health Service (IHS) registration records. We determined average annual death rates and leading causes of death for 1999 to 2009 for AI/AN versus...