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16 changes: 15 additions & 1 deletion docs/api/covidcast-signals/chng.md
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| `smoothed_adj_outpatient_covid` | Same, but with systematic day-of-week effects removed; see [details below](#day-of-week-adjustment) <br/> **Earliest date available:** 2020-02-01 |
| `smoothed_outpatient_cli` | Estimated percentage of outpatient doctor visits primarily about COVID-related symptoms, based on Change Healthcare claims data that has been de-identified in accordance with HIPAA privacy regulations, smoothed in time using a Gaussian linear smoother <br/> **Earliest date available:** 2020-02-01 |
| `smoothed_adj_outpatient_cli` | Same, but with systematic day-of-week effects removed; see [details below](#day-of-week-adjustment) <br/> **Earliest date available:** 2020-02-01 |

| `smoothed_outpatient_flu` | Estimated percentage of outpatient doctor visits with confirmed influenza, based on Change Healthcare claims data that has been de-identified in accordance with HIPAA privacy regulations, smoothed in time using a Gaussian linear smoother <br/> **Earliest issue available:** 2021-12-06 <br/> **Earliest date available:** 2020-02-01 |
| `smoothed_adj_outpatient_flu` | Same, but with systematic day-of-week effects removed; see [details below](#day-of-week-adjustment) <br/> **Earliest issue available:** 2021-12-06 <br/> **Earliest date available:** 2020-02-01 |
## Table of Contents
{: .no_toc .text-delta}

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Y_{it}^{\text{Flu}}\right)}{N_{it}}
$$

### Influenza Illness

The following estimation method is used for the `*_outpatient_flu` signals.

For a fixed location $$i$$ and time $$t$$, let $$Y_{it}$$
denote the Flu counts and let $$N_{it}$$ be the
total count of visits (the *Denominator*). Our estimate of the influenza
percentage is given by

$$
\hat p_{it} = 100 \cdot \frac{Y_{it}}{N_{it}}
$$

### Day-of-Week Adjustment

The fraction of visits due to COVID-19 is dependent on the day of the week. On
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