The trend in Covid-19 Cases in Cambria County Last week I posted on how county health rankings overall measures predicted the number of cases and deaths in each county in Pennsylvania. These measures were composites of dozens of more specific county level measures. There are too many univariate correlations to summarize here. The cases usedContinue reading “COVID-19 and County Health Rankings in PA: Which Variables Predict Cases and Deaths”
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The Number of Corona Virus Cases in Cambria County has Grown Exponentially While Health Behaviors Predict Cases in PA
The number of corona virus cases has grown exponentially in Cambria County. I have been keeping track of the number of cases in a google sheet as can be seen above. The cumulative case line has been following a cubic trend with the polynomial, y = 0.0347×2 – 3051.6x + 7E+07. This equation accounts forContinue reading “The Number of Corona Virus Cases in Cambria County has Grown Exponentially While Health Behaviors Predict Cases in PA”
County Health Rankings and Corona Virus Cases: Lower ranked counties have fewer cases in PA (except for Philly)
I thought I would take a break from Corona Virus numbers to talk about other numbers that I have covered over the years: County Health Rankings and the the Southern Poverty Law Centers annual count of hate groups in the US. On the surface they are unrelated but because both happens in Pennsylvania and theContinue reading “County Health Rankings and Corona Virus Cases: Lower ranked counties have fewer cases in PA (except for Philly)”