Estimation of the percentages of undiagnosed patients of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Hokkaido, Japan by using birth-death process with recursive full tracing

Takuma Tanaka; Takayuki Yamaguchi; Yohei Sakamoto

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241170

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Estimation of the percentages of undiagnosed patients of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Hokkaido, Japan by using birth-death process with recursive full tracing

Takuma Tanaka ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tanaka.takuma@gmail.com

Affiliations Graduate School of Data Science, Shiga University, Hikone, Shiga, Japan, The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University, Hikone, Shiga, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1898-8064

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Takayuki Yamaguchi,

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University, Hikone, Shiga, Japan
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Yohei Sakamoto

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
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Estimation of the percentages of undiagnosed patients of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Hokkaido, Japan by using birth-death process with recursive full tracing

Takuma Tanaka,
Takayuki Yamaguchi,
Yohei Sakamoto

Published: October 28, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241170

About the Authors

Takuma Tanaka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tanaka.takuma@gmail.com

Affiliations Graduate School of Data Science, Shiga University, Hikone, Shiga, Japan, The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University, Hikone, Shiga, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1898-8064

Takayuki Yamaguchi

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University, Hikone, Shiga, Japan

Yohei Sakamoto

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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