title: [Estimation on tolerance limits and tolerance interval regarding the disease incubation].
abstract: To estimate the tolerance limit and the tolerance interval of disease incubation, under the theory that the observations (samples) were subject to Poisson distribution, the tolerance limits and tolerance interval of disease incubation were calculated based on beta-distribution with integer parameter. Expressions on the relation were obtained, including the statistics on tolerance limits of both minimum and maximum orders while the tolerance was the difference between minimum and maximum order statistics and the parameters of Poisson distribution on the sample size. Using the incomplete observations as an example, reasonable unit of sample size was considered and chosen.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Quan-cai
authors.initials: QC
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Qi-ming
authors.initials: QM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Qing-wu
authors.initials: QW
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D055256:Infectious Disease Incubation Period; D016008:Statistical Distributions