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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemics. 2016 Oct 7;17:10–18. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2016.10.001

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Transmission kernels with different means and standard deviations can produce point patterns with the same mean squared dispersal distance (ER2) and therefore are not distinguishable from each other in the presented approach. (A) Combinations of values with the same ER2. (B) Cumulative distribution function of transmission kernels with exponential distribution with μk = σk =100m (red line in (B, C) and red dot in (A)), uniform distribution between 0 and 246m (green), gamma distribution with μk =80m and σk =117m (purple), Gaussian distribution with μk =140m and σk=20m (orange) and log-normal distribution with μk =200m and σk =500m (grey). Kernels with equivalent ER2 in (A) generated points that had indistinguishable cumulative distribution functions after ten generations, whereas the kernel with an inconsistent ER2 (in grey) had a different cumulative distribution function.