pstr_gamma_params_mers: Posterior distribution of MERS-CoV incubation period

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Posterior distribution of MERS-CoV incubation period

Description

A dataset containing samples from an estimated posterior distribution of the incubation period of MERS-CoV. Distribution was estimated from de-identified data from Virlogeux et al. (2016).

Usage

data(pstr_gamma_params_mers)

Format

A data frame with 1,000,000 rows and 6 variables:

• shape shape parameter of gamma distribution

• scale scale parameter of gamma distribution

• idx index of sample

• median the median correponding to this posterior sample

• p95 the 95th percentile correponding to this posterior sample

• chain which chain the sample belongs to

References

Virlogeux, V., Park, M., Wu, J. T. & Cowling, B. J. Association between Severity of MERS-CoV Infection and Incubation Period. Emerging Infectious Diseases 22, (2016).

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