No evidence of systematic proximity ascertainment bias in early COVID-19 cases in Wuhan Reply to Weissman (2024)

Autor:	Débarre, Florence, Worobey, Michael
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Physics - Physics and Society Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In a short text published as Letter to the Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Weissman (2024) argues that the finding that early COVID-19 cases without an ascertained link to Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale market resided on average closer to the market than cases epidemiologically linked to it, reveals "major proximity ascertainment bias". Here we show that Weissman's conclusion is based on a flawed premise, and that there is no such "internal evidence" of major bias. The pattern can indeed be explained by places of infection not being limited to residential neighbourhoods, and by stochasticity -- i.e., without requiring any ascertainment bias. Comment: Reply to Weissman (2024) arXiv:2401.08680
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08040 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv