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...compare mortality during the 14-month period before the invasion with nearly 18 months just after it. In September, members conducted interviews with 988 randomly selected Iraqi households in 33 statistically representative sample clusters around the country, then extrapolated for the entire population through a complex statistical process. Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the University of Oxford, and other experts have called the methodology sound. But Roberts' report comes with caveats: for example, the researchers noted that their "confidence interval" (a kind of statistical measuring stick), is quite wide, giving an estimated range...