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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Parasitol. 2015 Oct 16;46(1):59–66. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.08.009

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Bias and precision (coefficient of variation) for the Likelihood Method (Like.) and Adjei Method estimates of the a parameter and the LD50 of the host survival function based on simulated PIHM data over a range of post-mortality sample sizes. As the coefficient of variation increases, precision decreases. The pre-mortality parameters for this simulation were μp = 50 and kp = 0.5. The figure shows the simulations for three different host survival functions (gradual, moderate, and steep), each with the same LD50. Bias and precision results of LD50 and a for all other parameter combinations can be found in SI 3 Fig 4 - 9.