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The distribution of COVID-19 mortality
Michele Campolieti1, Arturo Ramos2
1Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada.
Abstract:
We estimate the distribution of COVID-19 mortality (measured as daily deaths) from the start of the pandemic until July 31st, 2022, for six European countries and the USA. We use the Pareto, the stretched exponential, the log-normal and the log-logistic distributions as well as mixtures of the log-normal and log-logistic distributions. The main results are that the Pareto does not describe well the data and that mixture distributions tend to offer a very good fit to the data. We also compute Value-at-Risk measures as well as mortality probabilities with our estimates. We also discuss the implications of our results and findings from the point of view of public health planning and modelling.
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