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ArticleInfectious Disease Modelling2021

On the reliability of predictions on Covid-19 dynamics: A systematic and critical review of modelling techniques.

Janyce Eunice Gnanvi, Kolawolé Valère Salako, Gaëtan Brezesky Kotanmi, Romain Glèlè Kakaï

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Article in Infectious Disease Modelling, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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51citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 106 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Janyce Eunice GnanviLaboratoire de Biomathématiques et d'Estimations Forestières, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, 04 BP 1525, Cotonou, Benin.
Kolawolé Valère SalakoLaboratoire de Biomathématiques et d'Estimations Forestières, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, 04 BP 1525, Cotonou, Benin.
Gaëtan Brezesky KotanmiLaboratoire de Biomathématiques et d'Estimations Forestières, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, 04 BP 1525, Cotonou, Benin.
Romain Glèlè KakaïLaboratoire de Biomathématiques et d'Estimations Forestières, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, 04 BP 1525, Cotonou, Benin.
Université d'Abomey-Calavi · BJ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the emergence of the novel 2019 coronavirus pandemic in December 2019 (COVID-19), numerous modellers have used diverse techniques to assess the dynamics of transmission of the disease, predict its future course and determine the impact of different control measures. In this study, we conducted a global systematic literature review to summarize trends in the modelling techniques used for Covid-19 from January 1st

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PMID33458453
PMCPMC7802527
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