Increase Cases — increase_cases • nccovid

Increase case count in the presence of high testing positivity

Usage,

increase_cases(observed_cases, pos_rate, m = 10.83, k = 0.5)

Source

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809590/

Arguments

observed_cases: numberic, the reported cases
pos_rate: numberic, the observed positivity rate
m: scaling factor
k: scaling factor with default of 1/2 on range [0,1]