The coronavirus patterns of spread show signs of overdispersion. Overdispersion is when something is distributed with more variability than expected. This may lead to superspreader events where ...

Among the members of the coronavirus family that can infect humans, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS- CoV-2) has exhibited the highest rate of transmission. This RNA virus is the ...

A recent research paper published in the journal Physics of Fluids analyzed the overdispersion in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) airborne transmission. Study: Analysis of overdispersion in ...

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2022 – Among several infectious disease terms to enter the public lexicon, superspreading events continue to make headlines years after the first cases of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The nest locations of two ant species in the Colorado Desert are intraspecifically overdispersed. Intraspecific overdispersion has been thought to represent strong intraspecific competition. Here we ...

In a seed germination test, seeds of two cultivars were planted in pots of two soil conditions. The following SAS statements create the data set seeds, which contains the observed proportion of seeds ...

In studying fluctuations in the size of a blackgrouse (Tetrao tetrix) population, an autoregressive model using climatic conditions appears to follow the changes quite well. However, the deviance of ...