Table 2.

Summary statistics of p_t, the estimated time-varying proportion of cases reported out of the actual number of cases, as obtained from the calibrated data.

Summary of estimates of pt	California		Florida
pt values/ period considered	Mean	Variance	Mean	Variance
First 30 days of the observed period	0.034 (3.4%)	0.0015	0.061 (6.1%)	0.008
Last 10 days of the observed period	0.57 (57%)	0.04	0.39 (39%)	0.007
Values lying between the first and the third sample quartiles	0.26 (26%)	0.01	0.23 (23%)	0.007