"Won't get fooled again": statistical fault detection in COVID-19 Latin American data

• Autori principali: Dalson Figueiredo Filho (Autore), Lucas Silva (Autore), Hugo Medeiros (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: BMC, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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Abstract Background Claims of inconsistency in epidemiological data have emerged for both developed and developing countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods In this paper, we apply first-digit Newcomb-Benford Law (NBL) and Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) to evaluate COVID-19 records reliabil...