Table 2. Mating function for specific distribution patterns; is the hypergeometric function, - modified Bessel functions of order m.
Distribution | Mating function | Prevalence of matedcouples (host infectivity) |
Uniform with mean w | ||
Poisson with mean w | ||
NB of mean w, aggregation k |
(abbreviation: NB, negative binomial, see S3 Appendix in S1 Text for details).