Table 1.

Published estimates of the key epidemiological parameters of 2019-nCoV. Uncertainty range is given where provided.

${\mathit{R}}_0$	Incubation Period	Method of Estimation	Reference
2.6 (1.5–3.5)	-	Epidemic Simulations	[19]
2.2 (1.4–3.8)	-	Stochastic Simulations	[20]
2.9 (2.3–3.6)	4.8 days	Exp. Growth, Max. Likelihood Est.	[21]
2.56 (2.49–2.63)	-	Exp. Growth, Max. Likelihood Est.	[17]
3.11 (2.3–4.1)	-	SEIR	[22]
2.5 (2.0–3.1)	-	Incidence Decay and Exponential Adjustment model	[23]
2.2 (1.4–3.9)	5.2 days (4.1–7.0)	Renewal Equations	[24]
−(1.4–4.0)	-	SEIR	[25]
4.71 (4.5–4.9)	$5.0$ days ($4.9$–$5.1$)	Dec. 2019, SEIJR, MCMC	[26]
2.08 (1.9–2.2)	-	Jan. 2020, SEIJR, MCMC	[26]
2.68 (2.4–2.9)	-	SEIR, MCMC	[27]
-	5.8 days 4.6–7.9)	Weibull	[28]
-	4.6 days (3.3–5.8)	Weibull incl. Wuhan	[29]
-	5.0 days (4.0–5.8)	Weibull excl. Wuhan	[29]
-	5.1 days (4.4–6.1)	LogNormal	[30]