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. 2015 Sep 9;2(9):150173. doi: 10.1098/rsos.150173

Table 1.

Summary of parameter estimates.

notation description value—mean (first, 99th percentile)
C (comm,g) number of commercial domestic chickens per cell 6293 (0, 16883)
C (back,g) number of backyard domestic chickens per cell 1654 (0, 6331)
w (comm) contact ratio between commercial chickens and people 5.2×10−4 (4.8×10−5, 9.8×10−4)
w (back) contact ratio between backyard chickens and people 0.51 (0.03, 0.99)
β~(comm) transmission parameter: commercial chickens humans 2.03×10−7 (1.16×10−9, 1.32×10−6)
β~(back) transmission parameter: backyard chickens humans 1.63×10−6 (6.05×10−8, 5.62×10−6)
n^(i,g,t) normalized density estimator see electronic supplementary material
U (active) under-reporting factor for active surveillance of HPAI and LPAI 8.2 (1.0, 99.7)
U (passive) under-reporting factor for passive surveillance of HPAI 286.1 (1.0, 1000.0)
U (both) under-reporting factor for both active and passive surveillance of HPAI and LPAI 7.7 (1.0, 108.4)