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. 2020 May 15:eabb9789. doi: 10.1126/science.abb9789

Table 2. Priors on the model parameters for the SIR model with stationary spreading rate.

Parameter Variable Prior distribution
Spreading rate λ LogNormal(log(0.4),0.5)
Recovery rate μ LogNormal(log(1/8),0.2)
Reporting delay D LogNormal(log(8),0.2)
Initially infected I0 HalfCauchy(100)
Scale factor σ HalfCauchy(10)