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In this paper, we expand upon and refine a monitoring strategy proposed for surveillance of diseases in finite, closed populations. This monitoring strategy consists of augmenting an arbitrarily non-representative data stream (such as a…
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The spread of COVID-19 makes it essential to investigate its prevalence. In such investigation research, as far as we know, the widely-used sampling methods didn't use the information sufficiently about the numbers of the previously…
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