by Chris McLean & Peter Bruce Never before have statistical models received the attention they are getting now in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. … Read More »Visualizing the Performance of COVID Models
by Mike Thurber and John Elder, Ph.D. By tracking anonymized mobile phone location data and COVID-19 case reports for many countries with different policies, we studied… Read More »Lockdowns Knock Down the Spread of COVID-19, but Only to a Point (and only early on)
by Carl Hoover, Senior Advisor, Elder Research We observe a peculiar counter-fluctuation in a COVID-19 statistic — daily percent changes in deaths; it has a… Read More »COVID-19: Tuesday Blips in a “Downward Trajectory”
by Mike Thurber, Principal Scientist, Elder Research Three weeks ago, our Brief Is the Spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Being Slowed looked at the impact… Read More »COVID-19 Social Distancing Has Mitigated 2020 Flu Season
by Peter Bruce, President & Founder, Statistics.com Although there are frequent reports in the news media of young people contracting serious cases of COVID-19 and… Read More »Coronavirus: Age and Health
by Mike Thurber, Principal Scientist, Elder Research A key issue for COVID-19 response policies moving forward is the asymptomatic rate – people who have the… Read More »COVID-19 Asymptomatic Rates and Implications
by Peter Bruce, President & Founder, Statistics.com Nearly everyone is now familiar with the IHME Covid-19 forecasts (also called the “Murray” model after the lead… Read More »Covid-19: Epidemiological Models vs. Statistical Models
by Mike Thurber, Principal Scientist, Elder Research The COVID-19 pandemic has created a need for clear and actionable analytics like never before. The world can’t… Read More »Is the Spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Being Slowed?
by Robert Robison, Data Analyst, Elder Research In 2019, over 40 million Americans wagered money on March Madness brackets, according to the American Gaming Association.… Read More »How to Pick a Winning March Madness Bracket
by Hudson Hollister Detecting which of the federal government’s millions of contracts most likely involve fraud used to require insider access to agencies’ IT systems. Data… Read More »Detecting Hidden Fraud Risk from Public Data
