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It doesn’t—

Most tick bites take 36-48 hours before you get infected (bell hump). But sometimes you get infected quickly (left tail) and sometimes it takes longer (right tail).



That'd be an s-curve, as it's always going up - a bell curve goes up then down.


They’re the same thing; the bell curve is probability of being infected at time X specifically, and the S curve is the cumulative sum, that is, the probability you’ll have been infected by day X


I suppose it depends on whether you’re charting the cumulative or the “instant” odds.




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