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Statistical Analysis of Zika Virus Correlation to Microcephaly

View ORCID ProfilePedro P. Simoni, View ORCID ProfileIsabela C. Simoni
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/046896
Pedro P. Simoni
1Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin - UNICAMP, 13083-859, Campinas SP, Brazil
2AHEP Group, Institut de Física Corpuscular–C.S.I.C./Universitat de València, Parc Cientific de Paterna. C/Catedratico José Beltrán, 2 E-46980 Paterna (València) - SPAIN
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Isabela C. Simoni
3Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento de Sanidade Animal, Instituto Biológico/APTA, CEP 04014-002 Av. Conselheiro Rodrigues Alves, 1252, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Abstract

A Statistical Analysis was performed to probe the correlation between the Zika Virus (ZIKV) and its possibility to induce Microcephaly in infants. It was found that without considering a false positive on tests for ZIKV on mothers there seems to be a statistical significance on ZIKV to cause Microcephaly in infants with a probability of Embedded Image. It was also shown that without knowing the confidence of the false positive tests of ZIKV it is not possible to statistically assert that this significance is true. It is proposed that to be able to discard the hypothesis of ZIKV not to cause the disease it is necessary to have a 30% of confidence in the ZIKV test.

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Statistical Analysis of Zika Virus Correlation to Microcephaly
Pedro P. Simoni, Isabela C. Simoni
bioRxiv 046896; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/046896
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Pedro P. Simoni, Isabela C. Simoni
bioRxiv 046896; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/046896

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