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Any idea what does the "beta" dimension mean in the graphs in the Twitter thread?

• yyyk 6y ago
  He explains this at his github repo, it's a statistical parameter to try to adjust for lack of proper control group (this is based on real-world data and not on an experiment): https://github.com/dviraran/covid_analyses https://github.com/dviraran/covid_analyses "However, an underlying assumption here is that the incidence rates of those that were vaccinated early are similar to the general population. Previous analyses have shown that this is not the case as older populations have lower incidence and lower socio-economic groups have higher incidence.4 Therefore, we perform a sensitivity analysis by adjusting incidence rates using different levels of beta values (Figure 1)..."