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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Like most Indians, I stare daily at Covid-19 statistics, hoping for progress.
As I did so, an oddity in daily reported Covid-19 deaths stood out, specific to a particular state.
What follows is a rudimentary analysis to highlight the same.
I took daily deaths by state over last the 100-days (Aug 11th to Nov 18th), from https://api.covid19india.org/documentation/csv/.
These 10 states cumulatively account for 82 per cent of all-India deaths over this period.
I ran a simple analysis of how much variability is there in this data, using two simple ratios:
The aim of both ratios is to gauge the extent of variation around an average, for each state.
Here’s the data and one state stands out for an anomalously low variability in daily Covid-19 reported deaths:
Here’s the same in graphical form. To compare states with diverse average deaths on same scale, each state’s daily deaths are divided by that state’s average daily deaths and multiplied by 100.
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