Table 1.

Summary characteristics of the 4 Ebola scenarios considered in the Forecasting Challenge. See (Ajelli, Zhang et al. 2017) for more details.

Scenario	Outbreak dynamics	Data characteristics	Interventions
1	Controlled	Data rich; individual-level information; little noise	Safe burials ETUs Reactive behavior change
2	Controlled	Intermediate data quality and quantity	Safe burials ETUs Reactive behavior change
3	Controlled	Data poor; more noise	Safe burials ETUs Reactive behavior change
4	Uncontrolled	Data poor; more noise	Safe burials ETUs Reactive behavior change. Interventions were insufficient to curb the epidemic in the timeframe of the simulations.