Smoothing reported death data

ImperialCollegeLondon / covid19model

Code for modelling estimated deaths and cases for COVID19.

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Smoothing reported death data #111

Closed RoryOConor closed 4 years ago

RoryOConor commented 4 years ago

There are several issues with daily reported death data: Weekly trends including delays in reporting at weekends. One off issues eg addition of multiple care home deaths at irregular intervals.

It should be relatively simple to smooth the weekly trends. For irregular additions, these extra deaths could be proportionally redistributed back to the previous irregular addition.

The smoothed death distribution can then be better compared against the modelled distribution.

s-mishra commented 4 years ago

look at usa code we allow that now for you to test. read_data functions