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  <dc:title>Calibration of Computer-Coded Verbal Autopsy Algorithm</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package vacalibration version 2.2</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Calibrates population-level cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) that are derived using computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) algorithms. Leveraging the data collected in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS;&lt;https://champshealth.org/&gt;) project, the package stores misclassification matrix estimates of three CCVA algorithms (EAVA, InSilicoVA, and InterVA) and two age groups (neonates aged 0-27 days, and children aged 1-59 months) across countries (specific estimates for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and South Africa, and a combined estimate for all other countries), enabling global calibration. These estimates are obtained using the framework proposed in Pramanik et al. (2025;&lt;doi:10.1214/24-AOAS2006&gt;) and are analyzed in Pramanik et al. (2026;&lt;doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2025-021747&gt;). Given VA-only data for an age group, CCVA algorithm, and country, the package utilizes the corresponding misclassification matrix estimate in the modular VA-Calibration framework (Pramanik et al.,2025;&lt;doi:10.1214/24-AOAS2006&gt;) and produces calibrated estimates of CSMFs. The package also supports ensemble calibration to accommodate multiple algorithms. More generally, this allows calibration of population-level prevalence derived from single-class predictions of discrete classifiers. For this, users need to provide fixed or uncertainty-quantified misclassification matrices. This work is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health K99 NIH Pathway to Independence Award (1K99HD114884-01A1), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-034842), and the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: rstan, openVA, parallel, ggplot2, patchwork, reshape2,
LaplacesDemon, MASS</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown,</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Sandipan Pramanik &lt;sandy.pramanik@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Sandipan Pramanik [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7196-155X&gt;),
  Emily Wilson [aut],
  Jacob Fiksel [aut],
  Brian Gilbert [aut],
  Abhirup Datta [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vacalibration/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-03-20</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vacalibration</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.vacalibration</dc:identifier>
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