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SUBMITTER: Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6386284 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar Maria M Finnie Thomas J R TJR Sloane Barney B Hall Ian M IM
PloS one 20190222 2
Employing historical records we are able to estimate the risk of premature death during the second plague pandemic, and identify the Black Death and pestis secunda epidemics. We show a novel method of calculating Bayesian credible intervals for a ratio of beta distributed random variables and use this to quantify uncertainty of relative risk estimates for these two epidemics which we consider in a 2 × 2 contingency table framework. ...[more]