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Probably not too important but it's been bugging me!
I did this question (5.15) and came up with the wrong answer. When calculating the total waiting time in the sick state I took off 128*14.5days to account for those people who are still in the hospital. This wasn't done in the model solution, although 128 was taken off for movements from sick to healthy (clearly, as it cannot be said that they have recovered). On reflection I can maybe see why the 128*14.5days are included, but it doesn't feel right!
Can anyone clear this up for me? Thanks
On a side note, ch5pg20, I found the RHS of the equation at the top of the page (which acted add 'follows by applying eqn 5.7 to pkj(h)') quite hard to deduce. Seems obvious now I have but just thought for future this could be made more explicit. If not here then in the answer to question 5.10 where this step is glossed over again.
I did this question (5.15) and came up with the wrong answer. When calculating the total waiting time in the sick state I took off 128*14.5days to account for those people who are still in the hospital. This wasn't done in the model solution, although 128 was taken off for movements from sick to healthy (clearly, as it cannot be said that they have recovered). On reflection I can maybe see why the 128*14.5days are included, but it doesn't feel right!
Can anyone clear this up for me? Thanks
On a side note, ch5pg20, I found the RHS of the equation at the top of the page (which acted add 'follows by applying eqn 5.7 to pkj(h)') quite hard to deduce. Seems obvious now I have but just thought for future this could be made more explicit. If not here then in the answer to question 5.10 where this step is glossed over again.