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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Infect Dis. 2010 Aug 15;202(4):567–575. doi: 10.1086/654897

Table 3.

Mean estimates of transmissibility for the summer 1918 and fall 1918 waves of the pandemic in Mexico City, assuming a serial interval of 3 or 6 days that is either exponentially distributed or fixed (delta distribution).

3-day serial interval 6-day serial interval
Exp dist. Delta dist. Exp. Dist. Delta dist.
Spring wave 1.3 (1.3, 1.3) 1.3 (1.3, 1.3) 1.7 (1.6, 1.7) 1.8 (1.8, 1.8)
Autumn wave 1.3 (1.3, 1.3) 1.3 (1.3, 1.3) 1.6 (1.6, 1.6) 1.7 (1.7, 1.8)