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Re:50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic by nardi on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:46AM (#22602662)
> "Mean" means nothing in the context of probability distributions.

Just wanted to boost this. With a range of 1–14 days, it's possible for close to 50% of infections to only incubate for ~1 day, and still have a mean of 5.6 days for incubation. Without knowledge of the distribution, the mean means nothing.

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Re:50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic by nardi on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:28PM (#22607453)
Just realized I understated this. It's actually possible for 64.6% of infections to only incubate for 1 day and get a mean of 5.6 days, if the other 35.4% of infections incubate for 14 days (i.e. an extremely bimodal distribution at 1 and 14 days).
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