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Samuel Preston, Ansley J. Coale, James Trussell, Maxine Weinstein, Estimating the Completeness of Reporting of Adult Deaths in Populations That Are Approximately Stable, Population Index, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Summer, 1980), pp. 179-202
Preston et al. (Tue,) studied this question.