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Table 4.

Age-specific model parameter estimates in Ontario, Canada (mean and standard deviation)

Parameter	Age class
Parameter	0–5	6–13	14–17	18–24	25–64	65+
$δ_{I i}$	0.0866 (0.0619)	0.1212 (0.0587)	0.1137 (0.0611)	0.0486 (0.0274)	0.3460 (0.0087)	0.3981 (0.0841)
$β_{i}$	0.0185 (0.0055)	0.0164 (0.0039)	0.0248 (0.0062)	0.0916 (0.0031)	0.1393 (0.0059)	0.5023 (0.0249)
$E_{i} (0)$	0	0	0	6 (1.0852)	6 (0.9363)	6 (0.7158)
$A_{i} (0)$	0	0	0	6 (0.6351)	6 (0.6590)	5 (0.6838)
$I_{i} (0)$	0	0	0	3 (0.0313)	10 (0.5206)	10 (0.8171)
$D_{i} (0)$	0	0	0	1	5	1
$S_{i} (0)$	877,614	1,245,978	641,784	1,411,604	7,879,605	2,509,962

The initial conditions $D_{i} (0)$ and $S_{i} (0)$ are fixed (not estimated), as well as $E_{i} (0)$ , $A_{i} (0)$ and $I_{i} (0)$ for age groups i = 1,2,3.