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Calculating the mortality rates as deaths/(deaths+recovered) will give you a biased result for an ongoing epidemic.
by oizin 7y ago
Calculating the mortality rates as deaths/(deaths+recovered) will give you a biased result for an ongoing epidemic.
- rumanator 7y agoIt's a deaths/infections ratio. What's biased about that?
- irishsultan 7y agoThe number that worried the OP was deaths/(deaths + recovered), that's different from deaths/(deaths + recovered + ongoing cases).