Retrospective two-stage cluster sampling for mortality in Iraq
Seppo LaaksonenUniversity of Helsinki
INTRODUCTION
Giles (2007) presents a summary of the debate that began as soon as Burnham et al. (2006) published their Iraq Mortality Survey (IMS) results in the British journal The Lancet. His article starts:
It's not often that George W. Bush takes time out to attack a scientific paper on the day that it's released. But then few papers attract as much attention as the one that claimed that more than half a million people, or 2.5% of the population, had...