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Although under-five mortality (U5M) rates have declined worldwide, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa still have much higher rates. Detection of subnational areas with unusually higher U5M rates could support targeted high impact child health interventions. We propose a novel group outlier detection statistic for identifying areas with extreme U5M rates under a multivariate survival data model. The performance of the proposed statistic was evaluated through a simulation study. We applied the proposed method to an analysis of child survival data in Malawi to identify sub-districts with unusually higher or lower U5M rates. The simulation study showed that the proposed outlier statistic can detect unusual high or low mortality groups with a high accuracy of at least 90%, for datasets with at least 50 clusters of size 80 or more. In the application, at most 7 U5M outlier sub-districts were identified, based on the best fitting model as measured by the Akaike information criterion (AIC).

A novel outlier statistic in multivariate survival models and its application to identify unusual under-five mortality sub-districts in Malawi