population

Simple Curve Approximation Tool (SCAT) is a tool allowing the user to approximate and draw curves and allows testing of assumptions, trajectories and the wildly varying figures reported in the media. The software allows quick approximation of the curve and creates meaningful comparisons and understandable visualisations for COVID-19 and other diseases SCAT is provided online as a downloadable MS Excel workbook with some sample cases show.

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Jane Courtney

COVID-19: Tracking the Pandemic with A Simple Curve Approximation Tool (SCAT)

Descriptors of the behavior of an outbreak.

modeling

modeling purpose

An algorithm that models the progress of a transmissible disease in a population.

disease transmission model

Predicted value of key outbreak parameters, including (but not limited to) fatality rate, R_0, etc.

parameter estimation

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Homo sapiens

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder.

infectious disease

A Coronavirus infection that is characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath and that has_material_basis_in SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19

Software is a plan specification composed of a series of instructions that can be interpreted by or directly executed by a processing unit.

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