(06-02-2021, 05:14 AM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:Do you think every death is reported...?If we are talking about here in Australia, yes every death is reported and accounted for.
It regards to the global statistics, it doesn't matter as long as the method of collecting them is consistent then the count remains valid.
You are an engineer, I don't expect we have to debate Regression to the Mean or Standard Deviations, or what they mean to the general trend, or what averages mean to an assertion that some numbers might be missing or that the count was somehow imperfect.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

