Table 1.

Parameter descriptions and estimations.

Parameter	Sierra Leone	Liberia	Guinea	Description	Source
N	7,079,162	4,390,737	11,805,509	Total human population	51
1/γ	9.31 days	9.31 days	9.31 days	Mean incubation period	35
1/η	7.41 days	7.41 days	7.41 days	Mean infection period	35
θ	0.690	0.723	0.707	Case fatality rate	3
1/ρ	2 days	2 days	2 days	Mean time from death to burial	16
1/p	87.35 days	87.35 days	87.35 days	Mean time to convalescent survivors recover completely	52
β 1	0.1320 [0.1298, 0.1332]	0.1723 [0.1708, 0.1746]	0.1561 [0.1510, 0.1588]	transmission rate of contacting alive infections patients	[Fitted]
β 2	0.0054 [0.0008, 0.0084]	0.0037 [0.0013, 0.0049]	0.0021 [0.0014, 0.0033]	Sexual transmission rate	[Fitted]
β 3	0.4711 [0.4491, 0.4866]	0.5049 [0.4930, 0.5226]	0.2443 [0.2284, 0.2740]	transmission rate of contacting dead bodies	[Fitted]
δ	0.9511 [0.9219, 0.9697]	0.8639 [0.8525, 0.8733]	0.9584 [0.9353, 0.9682]	proportion of removed infection individuals	[Fitted]
R 0	1.6726 [1.5922, 1.7573]	1.8162 [1.7660, 1.8329]	1.4873 [1.4770, 1.4990]	The basic reproduction number	[Calculated]
R I	0.9331 [0.9048, 0.9480]	1.1053[1.0895, 1.1161]	1.0890 [1.0473, 1.1174]	The infectious class’s contribution to R0	[Calculated]
R S	0.1155 [0.0066, 0.2343]	0.0236 [0.0860, 0.1034]	0.0546 [0.0335, 0.0853]	The convalescent class’s contribution to R0	[Calculated]
R D	0.6218 [0.6075, 0.6479]	0.6250 [0.6138, 0.6408]	0.3493 [0.3148, 0.3705]	The death class’s contribution to R0	[Calculated]