Multiple Contact Dates and SARS Incubation Periods
subject: severe acute respiratory syndrome, Incubation period, multiple contact dates, estimation, Spreadsheet, Canada
description: Many severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients have multiple possible incubation periods due to multiple contact dates. Multiple contact dates cannot be used in standard statistical analytic techniques, however. I present a simple spreadsheet-based method that uses multiple contact dates to calculate the possible incubation periods of SARS.
creator: Martin I. Meltzer
source: Emerging Infectious Diseases
publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
date: 2004
language: EN
identifier: DOI: 10.3201/eid1002.030426
coverage: Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine