The effect of vaccine on COVID-19 spread by function-on-scalar regression model: a case study of Africa

Zeinab Rizk1,2, Nasrullah Khan3

  • 1School of Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, 330013 Jiangxi China.

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