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Benford’s Law and COVID-19 reporting()

Trust in the reported data of contagious diseases in real time is important for policy makers. Media and politicians have cast doubt on Chinese reported data on COVID-19 cases. We find Chinese confirmed infections match the distribution expected in Benford’s Law and are similar to that seen in the U...

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Autores principales: Koch, Christoffer, Okamura, Ken
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32952242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109573