Systematic movement in the gender ratio for hospital admissions point to a common source

What is it about?

Data from New Zealand is used to demonstrate that the gender ratio for hospital admissions show systematic up/down steps over time. These steps occur when there is an outbreak of a presumed novel type of infectious agent.

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Why is it important?

Obviously there will be some movement in the gender ratio in each diagnosis/condition due to statistical randomness, however, these changes are higher than expected from randomness and occur at a common time between countries.

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