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. 2020 Aug 24;9:e58699. doi: 10.7554/eLife.58699

Table 2. Model parameters and priors/values.

Parameter Description Prior/value Source/Notes
β¯ Overall contact rate (1/days) Estimated: Uniform(0,100)
c(cc) Relative initial contact rate between crew/crew Fixed: 1
c(pp) Relative initial contact rate between passengers/passengers Estimated: Uniform(0,100)
c(pc) Relative initial contact rate between passengers/crew Fixed relative to c(pp)
X Ratio: c(pc)c(pp) Fixed: 0.1 Assumed. Varied in sensitivity analyses
b1 Percentage reduction in all initial contact rates (%) Estimated: Uniform(0,100)
b2 Rate of change of all contact rates (1/days) Fixed: 10 Assumed. Transitions completed over approximately one day
τ(pp),τ(pc) Time of transition for contacts between passengers/passengers and passengers/crew (days) Estimated: Uniform(0,32) Assumed to be equal to each other
τ(cc) Time of transition for contacts between crew/crew (days) Estimated: Uniform(0,32)
θp Relative infectiousness of presymptomatic state Estimated: Uniform(0,1) Relative to symptomatic state
θa Relative infectiousness of asymptomatic state Estimated: Uniform(0,1) Relative to symptomatic state
χ Proportion of infections that proceed to asymptomatic state Estimated: Uniform(0,1)
1v Latent period (days) Fixed: 4.3 Derived from Backer et al., 2020
1γa Mean duration in asymptomatic state (days) Fixed: 5.0 Assumed. Sum of mean durations in presymptomatic and symptomatic states.
Varied in sensitivity analyses.
1γp Mean duration in presymptomatic state (days) Fixed: 2.1 Derived from Backer et al., 2020
1γs Mean duration in infectious symptomatic state (days). Fixed: 2.9 From Liu et al., 2020b Applicable only until quarantine starts on 5th Feb
1μ Mean delay between onset of symptomatic disease and symptom-based testing and removal (days). Fixed: 1 Assumed. Applicable only after quarantine starts on 5th Feb.
1η Mean duration of test positivity following recovery (days) Fixed: 7 From Woelfel et al., 2020
ϕ Proportion of symptomatic cases with a reported onset date Fixed: 0.661 (199/314) From Mizumoto et al., 2020; Nishiura, 2020
f(t) Rate of symptom-agnostic testing and removal (1/days) Fixed: Calculated From Mizumoto et al., 2020 Calculated using the number of tests administered per day amongst individuals not reporting symptoms (see Appendix 1)
N(p) Total number of passengers on the ship as at start of quarantine on 5th Feb Fixed: 2666 From NIID, 2020
N(c) Total number of crew on the ship as at start of quarantine on 5th Feb Fixed: 1045 From NIID, 2020