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Would this not have also been the case for SARS? If there are two underestimates, is there a way to compare them reliably?
by hyperpape 7y ago
Would this not have also been the case for SARS? If there are two underestimates, is there a way to compare them reliably?
- jerf 7y agoIn general, only if you can be very specific about exactly how underestimated they are, which is equivalent to the problem of knowing the correct values in the first place, so, basically, no. (Sometimes statistics can help you out, but I think that's best understood as a set of fairly specific exceptions with very strong conditions on them, rather than the rule.)
- bordercases 7y agoHere's a paper that explores where underestimates may exist: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020495v1.article-metrics https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020495v...