https://todnewman.com/covid-19-special-update-instantaneous-rate-of-change-explanation-and-one-good-example/ CATEGORIES Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://todnewman.com/covid-19-special-update-instantaneous-rate-of-change-explanation-and-one-good-example/#comment-14 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:53:56 +0000 http://todnewman.com/?p=302#comment-14 It was pointed out to me (thanks Marshall!) that my Vermont example showing a negative first differential is stupid. Plus, I threw the plot up there quickly w/o formatting the X-axis. Only takeaway from that plot is that the slope got lower from day 2 to 3 of having deaths… data is too small for a good 2nd order polynomial fit. Sorry! Might have been late at night… 🙂

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