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Generalized logistic growth modeling of the COVID-19 outbreak: comparing the dynamics in the 29 provinces in China and in the rest of the world

Ke Wu, Didier Darcet, Qian Wang and 1 more

Nonlinear Dynamics · 2020 · CC BY

doi:10.1101/2020.03.11.20034363

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