Incubation period and other epidemiological characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infections with right truncation: A statistical analysis of publicly available case data

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2020, Pages

  Linton, Natalie M ^a   Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^a   Yang, Yichi ^a   Hayashi, Katsuma ^a   Akhmetzhanov, Andrei R ^a   Jung, Sung Mok ^a   Yuan, Baoyin ^a   Kinoshita, Ryo ^a   Nishiura, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distribution; Emerging infectious diseases; Epidemiology; Incubation period; Virus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CASE FATALITY RATE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85110066851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jcm9020538     Document Type: Article

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