fmarthoz
1 min readMar 13, 2020

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Very comprehensive article, thanks! Calculating the growth rate based on a single day increase (in chart 5, if I understood correctly) is probably misleading and as a result the projections might be unrealistic. This is particularly true for countries where the outbreak happened very recently and where there are few data points, plus there is a lot of random variation. It’d probably be better to take a geometric mean of the increase across several days?

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Msc in Mathematics and Statistics, Data Analytics

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