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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 4.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemics. 2013 Nov 19;6:37–45. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2013.11.002

Table 1.

Parameter descriptions, values, distributions, and sources.

Parameter Point estimate Distribution Reference
Infectious perioda 1/δ 3.8 days Normalb Cauchemez et al. (2004)
Secondary attack rate θ 0.147 Truncated normalc,d Longini et al. (1982)
Contact rate c 13.4 contacts/day Empirical Mossong et al. (2008)
Vaccine efficacy εV 0.95 Betae Belshe et al. (1998)
Antiviral treatment efficacy εT 0.808 Betaf Halloran et al. (2007)
Proportion of infected individuals hospitalized pH 0.005 Betag Sullivan et al. (1993), Thompson et al. (2003, 2004)

SD, standard deviation.

a

1/recovery rate.

b

Standard deviation = 0.4.

c

All values greater than 0.

d

Standard deviation = 0.037.

e

From 1Beta(7,163)Beta(64,468)

f

From 1Beta(4,176)beta(22,168)

g

From [Beta(1441,14687)/(1441/16128)](167812/226545805)Beta(120,694)