COVID-19 Worldwide in 2020~ GIGO: New Zealand has moved up one position!

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:

covidrankedworldrNZnew

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:

COVIDNZOld

The corrected data gives:

COVIDNZnew

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:

covidworld2020US

Here is our COVID-19 2020 NZ data:

nzdata

For our calculations see:

COVID-19 Worldwide in 2020~ Computation of r and Re in Excel

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