To: chessplayer
They lost a lot of credibility by saying that the number of infections is increasing “exponentially”.
23 posted on
09/08/2014 8:35:46 PM PDT by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
http://www.ebolainfo.org/new-charts-4th-sept_topic30259.html Might have been here on FR, or the site above, or on AvianFluTalk.com, but someone pretty much took the curves a bit and did a least-squares-fit to guesstimate R0 for this outbrake -- plotting that the future trend using that value, led to an exponential curve.
25 posted on
09/08/2014 9:49:53 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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