Singapore, May 11 -- Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, and the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have used data science models to analyse and predict the total number of infected people for different States in India in the next 30 days. A report solely based on anyone model can potentially mislead us.

In an attempt to guard against this possibility, they have considered the exponential, the logistic, and the Susceptible Infectious Susceptible (SIS) models, along with the model-free daily infection-rate (DIR) using open-source data. They have interpreted the results jointly from all models rather than individually.

The data-driven assessment is carried out by Dr. Palash Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Dep...