Table 1.

Parameter meanings and baseline values of the SEI canine rabies model with three dog ownership types.

Parameter	Biological meaning	Baseline value	Reference
a1	Per capita birth rate of stray dogs	0.0027/day	Assumption
a2	Birth rate of owned free-roaming dogs	(variable) dogs/day	Assumption
a3	Birth rate of owned confined dogs	(variable) dogs/day	Assumption
1/b1	Average natural life span of stray dogs	3 years	(23)
1/b2	Average natural life span of owned free-roaming dogs	5 years	Assumption
1/b3	Average natural life span of owned confined dogs	8 years	(25)
1/σ	Average incubation period	25.5 days	(23)
1/μ	Average infectious period	5.7 days	(23)
γ	Strength of density-dependent mortality	(variable)/(dogs × day)
β	βij: transmission term that a dog of type j infects a dog of type i (i, j = 1, 2, 3)	$\left(\begin{array}{ccc}0.4& 0.4& 0.04\\ 0.4& 0.4& 0.04\\ 0.04& 0.04& 0.004\end{array}\right)\times {10}^{-3}/\left(\text{dog}\times \text{day}\right)$	Assumption

Parameters with values that vary throughout the paper are marked as (variable). See Figure 5 for details on the form of the transmission matrix.