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Value

An object of class ``VA'', a list containing the following elements:
best.symp
It returns the nsymp, the size of subset that minimizes mean square error between estimated cause-specific mortality fraction and the observed cause-specific mortality fraction.
mse
It is a vector of mean square errors associated with each size of the subsets (as specified in symp.vec).



Gary King 2010-09-01