id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-298872-gbi74g0n	FIORITI, V.	Estimating the epidemic growth dynamics within the first week	2020-08-16		.txt	text/plain	3909	215	60	It is only necessary to collect the cumulative data of the daily infected over a week in some of the most important cities involved in the outbreak, to form a unique sequence of these numbers and then to calculate the first digit distribution. The main idea is to estimate an approximating function for the epidemic growth curve within a time horizon of Tf days, using only the first seven epidemic data points of fifty Italian cities, accounting for about the 30% of the population, considered as a unique sequence formed of 50x7 data-points, called 50_cities sequence. To classify various possible approximant curves we have calculated their Benford gof, showed in the Table 1 , together with the gof of the real Italian epidemic data, the logistic curve, of the cubic curve and of the 50_cities.	./cache/cord-298872-gbi74g0n.txt	./txt/cord-298872-gbi74g0n.txt