Estimating the size of undetected cases of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe: an upper bound estimator

DOI10.1515/EM-2020-0024MaRDI QIDQ829925zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Irene Rocchetti, Heinz Holling, Antonello Maruotti, Dankmar Böhning

Publication date 6 May 2021

Published in Epidemiologic Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/em-2020-0024

zbMATH Keywords

COVID-19geometric distributioncapture-recapture methodsChao's lower bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Epidemiology (92D30)

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