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How to make sense of deaths by month causes
Why a monthly death index carries no cause column, how monthly grouping invents patterns that are not there, and where real mortality figures live.
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Maintenance
Why a monthly death index carries no cause column, how monthly grouping invents patterns that are not there, and where real mortality figures live.
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Actors who died: how a report about a performer is checked, why stage names defeat name matching, and which sources actually settle an identity.
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Deaths today corrections: the checks a desk runs on a same-day death report, why false ones spread so far, and what an adequate correction must do.
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Deaths today: what a daily record page can honestly mean by today, where a day begins and ends, and why a careful daily page is usually empty.