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. 2017 Jul 28;3(2):vex018. doi: 10.1093/ve/vex018

Table 1.

Model parameter estimates for NoV.

Symbol Parameter Estimates considered
1/γ Infection duration, general 7 days
1/γc Infection duration, immunocompromised 7 days–12 months
kc/k Substitution rate ratio 0.1, 1, 5, 10
1/θc Immunity duration, immunocompromised 3 days and 2 years
q Quarantine parameter 0.1, 0.5, and 0.9
N Population size 106

Symbol Parameter Mean/mode Lower bound Upper bound

R0 Basic reproduction number 1.64a 1 4.5
1/θ Duration of immunity, general 3 2 4
k Substitution rate, general 0.003 0.002 0.004
c Proportion immunocompromised 10−3 10−4 10−2
a

Corresponds to an attack rate of 67%.