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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2009 Dec 31;361(27):10.1056/NEJMoa0905498. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0905498

Table 3.

Number of Household Contacts with Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Illness, According to the Number of Household Members.*

No. of
Household
Members
No. of Household Contacts with Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Illness
0 1 2 3 4 5
no. no. expected from
transmission model
(95% credible interval)
no. no. expected from
transmission model
(95% credible interval)
no. no. expected from
transmission model
(95% credible interval)
no. no. expected from
transmission model
(95% credible interval)
no. no. expected from
transmission model
(95% credible interval)
no. no. expected from
transmission model
(95% credible interval)
2 28 28.2 (21–34) 11 10.8 (5–18)
3 34 32.6 (24–40) 9 11.4 (5–18) 4 3.1 (0–8)
4 52 50.6 (41–59) 13 13.4 (6–21) 2 3.6 (1–8) 2 1.5 (1–3)
5 31 30.7 (23–38) 9 10.1 (5–16) 4 2.7 (0–7) 1 1.4 (0–3) 0 0.2 (0–1)
6 11 10.7 (7–14) 4 3.4 (1–7) 0 0.7 (0–3) 1 1.0 (0–2) 0 0.2 (0–1) 0 0 (0–0)
*

The number expected from the transmission model is the posterior mean.