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Methods for calculating credible intervals for ratios of beta distributions with application to relative risks of death during the second plague pandemic

Employing historical records we are able to estimate the risk of premature death during the second plague pandemic, and identify the Black Death and pestis secunda epidemics. We show a novel method of calculating Bayesian credible intervals for a ratio of beta distributed random variables and use th...

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Autores principales: Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar, Maria, Finnie, Thomas J. R., Sloane, Barney, Hall, Ian M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6386284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30794569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211633