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It's statistically incorrect to assume they can be merged and treated as a single data set.
What is more useful is to examine well bounded and vetted subsets of the data.
Once the South Korean cases become more mature in a couple weeks, I think we will have very high confidence mortality data.
Including poor data quality sources will just introduce biases.
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It's statistically incorrect to assume they can be merged and treated as a single data set.
What is more useful is to examine well bounded and vetted subsets of the data.
Once the South Korean cases become more mature in a couple weeks, I think we will have very high confidence mortality data.
Including poor data quality sources will just introduce biases.