Estimating incubation period distributions with coarse data

The incubation period, the time between infection and disease onset, is important in the surveillance and control of infectious diseases but is often coarsely observed. Coarse data arises because the time of infection, the time of disease onset or both are not known precisely. Accurate estimates of an incubation period distribution are useful in real‐time outbreak investigations and in modeling public health interventions. We compare two methods...