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. 2015 Dec 1;14:479. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-0894-x

Table 2.

Intervention policies

Policy Description Parameter Values
No intervention No food or ITN ϕ0c fixed, ϕt(1)=ϕt(2)=0,
ϕa1=α1-αϕ0c,ϕN=2αϕ0c,
Targeted food Food if WAZ <θ pI=1, ϕ0c fixed, ϕt(1)=ϕt(2)=P(Z<θ),
ϕa1=α1-αϕ0c,ϕN=2αϕ0c,
P(G=11|Z=z,G0=1)=1{z>θ},
P(G=12|Z=z,G0=1)=1{z<θ},
P(G=21|Z=z,G0=2)=1{z>θ},
P(G=22|Z=z,G0=2)=1{z<θ}
Untargeted ITN ITN with probability ϕ if unprotected pI=p,ϕ0c fixed, ϕt(1)=ϕ,ϕt(2)=0,fA(a)=δ(a),
ϕa1=α1-α(ϕ0c+(1-ϕ0c)ϕ),ϕN=2α(ϕ0c+(1-ϕ0c)ϕ),
P(G=11|Z=z,G0=1)=1-ϕ,
P(G=12|Z=z,G0=1)=ϕ,
P(G=21|Z=z,G0=2)=1,
P(G=22|Z=z,G0=2)=0
Targeted ITN ITN if WAZ <θ and unprotected pI=p,ϕt(1)=P(Z<θ),ϕt(2)=0, ϕ0c fixed, fA(a)=δ(a),
ϕa1=α1-α(ϕ0c+(1-ϕ0c)ϕt(1)),ϕN=2α(ϕ0c+(1-ϕ0c)ϕt(1)),
P(G=11|Z=z,G0=1)=1{z>θ},
P(G=12|Z=z,G0=1)=1{z<θ},
P(G=21|Z=z,G0=2)=1,
P(G=22|Z=z,G0=2)=0
Targeted food and food if WAZ <θ, pI=p,ϕt(1)=ϕt(2)=P(Z<θ), ϕ0c fixed,
Targeted ITN ITN if WAZ <θ and unprotected ϕa1=α1-α(ϕ0c+(1-ϕ0c)ϕt(1)),ϕN=2α(ϕ0c+(1-ϕ0c)ϕt(1)),
P(G=11|Z=z,G0=1)=1{z>θ},
P(G=12|Z=z,G0=1)=1{z<θ},
P(G=21|Z=z,G0=2)=1{z>θ},
P(G=22|Z=z,G0=2)=1{z<θ}

The last column specifies the restrictions on the parameter values in Eqs. (4)–(6), where 1{x} is the indicator function of the event x, and δ(a) is the Dirac delta function