Estimating the undetected infections in the Covid-19 outbreak by harnessing capture–recapture methods
Objectives: A major open question, affecting the decisions of policy makers, is the estimation of the true number of Covid-19 infections. Most of them are undetected, because of a large number of asymptomatic cases. We provide an efficient, easy to compute and robust lower bound estimator for the nu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-08-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220304446 |