Epidemiological measures for assessing the dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2-outbreak: Simulation study about bias by incomplete case-detection

• Ralph Brinks ,

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

  * E-mail: Ralph.Brinks@uni-wh.de

  Affiliation Chair for Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health/School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0961-6592

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• Helmut Küchenhoff,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Jörg Timm,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Faculty, Institute of Virology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Tobias Kurth,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Annika Hoyer

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatistics and Medical Biometry, Medical School OWL, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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