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

• Hauptverfasser: Dalson Figueiredo Filho (Verfasst von), Lucas Silva (Verfasst von), Hugo Medeiros (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...