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Estimating the date of infection from individual response times
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2009
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In principle, an unknown date of infection can be estimated from individual response times, provided some function of these with suitable origin is symmetrically distributed. Observed times are always skewly distributed, and either logarithm or reciprocal of time can be used to produce symmetry. Either is equally justifiable but the resulting estimates are not only very imprecise but are also inconsistent, so that neither is of practical value.
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