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. 2016 Jan 29;395:1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.01.027

Table 1.

Baseline parameter values.

Parameter Description Value
λ Constant governing awareness/risk perception of disease 1.5
γ Constant governing behaviour imitation 0.5
θ Vaccinating threshold 0.35
σ Weighting for global versus local information 0.8
β Transmission rate 0.005
NPop Population size 10,000
I0 Initial number of infectious persons 20
η Mean infectious period, in days 7