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| | SARS Incubation Period (Replies) | CDC EID |
 | | In brief, he assumed a uniform distribution of all possible incubation periods derived from these contact dates for each patient and randomly selected an incubation period from all contact dates for each patient to obtain a distribution of the incubation period for all 19 patients. |
 | | Therefore, the frequency distribution of the incubation period is given by dividing each total expected frequency by the sum of the total expected frequencies (x 100%) and is 7.6, 22.1, 14.2, 9.0, 6.5, 11.5, 4.6, 3.7, 3.7, 6.4, 3.7, 1.7, 1.1, 1.1, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7. |
 | | Wong and Tam (1) are correct in stating that their method of calculating mean frequencies of possible incubation periods for patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is simpler than the method that I presented (2). |
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