Multiple contact dates and SARS incubation periods.

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Meltzer MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3322923 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature