Table 1. Mean absolute percentage difference between annual age-specific excess hospitalization rates and annual hospitalization rates of laboratory confirmed infections in a pediatric cohort.

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5	Model 6	Model 7	Model 8
Link function	Log	Log	Log	Log	Linear	Log	Log	Log
Inference	Bayesian	Bayesian	Bayesian	Bayesian	Bayesian	Classical	Classical	Classical
Prior	Uniform	Uniform	Uniform	Uniform	Uniform	NA	NA	NA
Virus proxies	Age-specific count	Age-specific proportion	All-ages proportion	ILI×LAB	Age-specific count	Age-specific count	Age-specific proportion	All-ages proportion
Influenza A
sH1N1	38.4	43.3	40.6	33.9	46.6	41.0	77.4	44.0
H3N2	38.8	28.4	71.4	33.9	48.0	38.7	27.7	93.8
pH1N1	37.8	74.5	47.1	43.6	41.5	37.0	48.7	49.7
Influenza B	54.3	43.2	57.3	58.7	64.9	57.0	53.9	74.3
RSV	39.1	46.1	45.3	55.7	43.6	39.4	78.3	279.4
Parainfluenza	53.8	61.6	71.1	81.4	49.2	53.6	88.1	215.3
Adenovirus	63.4	79.1	68.8	65.3	68.3	68.2	108.9	145.0

Abbreviations: RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; NA, not available.