<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Enviado do meu iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>InĂ­cio da mensagem encaminhada:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>De:</b> "Kuzmics, Christoph (<a href="mailto:christoph.kuzmics@uni-graz.at">christoph.kuzmics@uni-graz.at</a>)" <<a href="mailto:christoph.kuzmics@UNI-GRAZ.AT">christoph.kuzmics@UNI-GRAZ.AT</a>><br><b>Data:</b> 23 de abril de 2020 01:44:20 BRT<br><b>Para:</b> <a href="mailto:allstat@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">allstat@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a><br><b>Assunto:</b> <b>Estimating the proportion of Corona cases with a random sample</b><br><b>Responder A:</b> "Kuzmics, Christoph (<a href="mailto:christoph.kuzmics@uni-graz.at">christoph.kuzmics@uni-graz.at</a>)" <<a href="mailto:christoph.kuzmics@UNI-GRAZ.AT">christoph.kuzmics@UNI-GRAZ.AT</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>This short note (in the form of a blog post) makes one simple point. If you are interested in estimating the proportion of Corona infected people in some country or region, there is a simple and better (more precise) estimate than the one you obtain by computing the sample proportion.</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://grazeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/estimating-the-proportion-of-corona-cases-with-a-random-sample/">https://grazeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/estimating-the-proportion-of-corona-cases-with-a-random-sample/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>I thought some of you might find this interesting. If you know what this estimator is called, please let me know.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Best regards,</span><br><span></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Christoph Kuzmics</span><br><span><a href="https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/christoph.kuzmics/">https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/christoph.kuzmics/</a></span><br><span>Professor of Microeconomics</span><br><span>University of Graz</span><br><span></span><br><span>You may leave the list at any time by sending the command</span><br><span></span><br><span>SIGNOFF allstat</span><br><span></span><br><span>to <a href="mailto:listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk">listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>, leaving the subject line blank.</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>