Statistical Diagnosis (SPD) for Control of SARS Epidemic Situation of Beijing
Gongxu Zhang, Jing Sun · Asian Journal on Quality · 2003
Under the strong leadership of Chinese Government to the anti‐SARS struggle, the situation has been successfully controlled. Since May 1 of 2003, the Ministry of Health of China published daily the number of newly increased SARS patient of Beijing, the authors analyzed these data using Xcs−Xscs cause‐selecting control charts of Statistical Diagnosis (SPD) Theory. Data about number of newly increased SARS patient consists of two kinds of variation: random variation and tendency variation of SARS epidemic. It is concluded that SARS epidemic of Beijing was already controlled since May 9 of 2003.