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Comment
. 2019 Oct 15;116(42):20809-20810.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1912147116. Epub 2019 Sep 26.

On the multibin logarithmic score used in the FluSight competitions

Johannes Bracher  1
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On the multibin logarithmic score used in the FluSight competitions

Johannes Bracher. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Forecasts F for the peak week, submitted by the LANL team in weeks 6 to 7, 2017, and optimized versions G. Diamonds mark the observed peak week. Expected scores are computed under F.
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