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But since virus spread is exponential, why is plotting the number of cases vs time a bad idea? It would also give us a line plot.
by Yajirobe 7y ago
But since virus spread is exponential, why is plotting the number of cases vs time a bad idea? It would also give us a line plot.
- MereInterest 7y agoIt depends partly on your assumptions, and how you are modeling it. An exponential curve assumes that all members of a population have equal contact with all other members of the population. A power law assumes that there is some social graph that maps into N dimensions, and that infections occur along an N-1 dimensional surface in that space. Either is a valid way to model the infection, and result in different preferred ways to plot the data.