2 papers
q-bio.PE2021
Estimating the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany via spline-based hierarchical modelling of death counts
Tobias Wistuba, Andreas Mayr, Christian Staerk
The effective reproduction number is a key figure to monitor the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study we consider a retrospective modelling approach for estimating the ef…
q-bio.PE2020
Estimating effective infection fatality rates during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Christian Staerk, Tobias Wistuba, Andreas Mayr
The infection fatality rate (IFR) of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the most discussed figures in the context of this pandemic. Using German COVID-19 surveillanc…