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  • Biostatistics
  • Mathematical Biology

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  • Effective pandemic control requires robust analysis of COVID-19 data.
  • Current methods, like descriptive statistics, offer limited insights into strategy effectiveness.
  • A gap exists between official data and analytical methods for assessing public health interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for advanced analytical methods for COVID-19 data scrutiny.
  • To highlight the limitations of descriptive statistics in pandemic analysis.
  • To propose maximum likelihood compartmental modeling for reliable insights into disease dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing maximum likelihood compartmental modeling.
  • Focusing analysis on COVID-19 mortality data due to higher reliability.
  • Critiquing the inadequacy of officially collected data for in-depth epidemiological modeling.

Main Results:

  • Descriptive statistics provide limited evidence for pandemic control strategy assessment.
  • Maximum likelihood compartmental modeling offers flexibility to test hypotheses on infection, recovery, and mortality.
  • COVID-19 deaths are more reliable indicators than infection cases for modeling.

Conclusions:

  • Compartmental modeling provides a more sensitive and reliable method for analyzing COVID-19 dynamics.
  • Official data limitations hinder comprehensive analysis and effective strategy development.
  • Further discussion and adoption of advanced modeling techniques are needed for improved pandemic response.