Enhanced empirical likelihood estimation of incubation period of COVID-19 by integrating published information.

Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a large number of scientific studies and data analysis reports have been published in the International Journal of Medicine and Statistics. Taking the estimation of the incubation period as an example, we propose a low-cost method to integrate external research results and available internal data together. By using empirical likelihood method, we can effectively incorporate summarized information even if it may be derived from a misspecified model.

First report of the leaf-mining genus Parornix Spuler from China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Parornichinae).

The subfamily Parornichinae and thus the genus Parornix Spuler, 1910 are reported for the first time in China. Two new species, P. sinensis Liu, sp.