Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T27 |
0-142 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Using the duration of stay in Wuhan and the symptom onset date, we obtained a range of possible values for the incubation period of each case. |
T28 |
143-312 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We fitted three parametric forms for the incubation period distribution to these ranges: the Weibull distribution, the gamma distribution and the lognormal distribution. |
T29 |
313-418 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We used a Bayesian approach to fitting that allows for the use of prior knowledge to inform the analysis. |
T30 |
419-613 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We specified strictly positive flat prior probability distributions for the parameter values of the three distributions (Supplementary Material S2), which ensured our estimates are conservative. |
T31 |
614-719 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Because of the sufficient number of observations, the impact of the priors on the outcome was negligible. |
T32 |
720-838 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We used a uniform prior probability distribution over the exposure interval for the moment of infection for each case. |
T33 |
839-998 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We sampled from the posterior distribution using the rstan package [9] in R software version 3.6.0 (R Foundation, Vienna, Austria) (Supplementary Material S3). |