I have a new verbal autopsy paper out, which goes deep into the weeds of how to measure the accuracy of a method for identifying the underlying cause of death at the population level from survey data. http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/13/1/28
A fun online appendix includes probabilistic combinatorial calculations of the sort that I was actually trained in: http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/supplementary/s12963-015-0061-1-s2.zip
Healthy Algorithms 