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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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Autores principales: Böhning, Dankmar, Rocchetti, Irene, Maruotti, Antonello, Holling, Heinz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7286831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32534143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.009