Yip, Paul S. F.; Lam, K. F.; Lau, Eric H. Y.; Chau, Pui-Hing - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 168 (2005) 1, pp. 233-243
In an outbreak of a completely new infectious disease like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), estimation of the fatality rate over the course of the epidemic is of clinical and epidemiological importance. In contrast with the constant case fatality rate, a new measure, termed the...