A duplication in our source data we obtained from an outside source has meant New Zealand has moved up one position in world rankings. GIGO means Garbage In Garbage Out. The new rankings are:
Norway and New Zealand have changed positions.
The last column ranks countries by r* our two-day average estimation for r.
We discovered late yesterday that our source data had a duplication for 102 cases:
The corrected data gives:
Our estimation for r in New Zealand (last column r*) now changes from 1.39846 to 1.40673.
We will use the corrected data from now on.
The previous rankings were:
Here is our COVID-19 2020 NZ data:
For our calculations see:
COVID-19 Worldwide in 2020~ Computation of r and Re in Excel