Table 3.

Summary statistics of $R_t$ estimated by five methods and the width of the 95% confidence intervals

Variables	EG_$R_t$	MLE_$R_t$	SB_$R_t$	TD_$R_t$	Epi_$R_t$	EG_CI_W	MLE_CI_W	SB_CI_W	TD_CI_W	Epi_CI_W
Minimum	1.00	1.11	1.09	1.00	1.00	0.00	0.03	0.17	0.14	0.00
Maximum	9.07	16.13	3.68	6.89	9.93	31.98	21.96	6.56	4.60	6.97
Mean	2.13	2.81	1.62	1.57	2.14	2.12	0.94	0.71	0.40	0.43
Q3(.75)	8.72	10.41	3.43	6.67	7.83	18.14	10.43	5.40	3.32	4.21
Q1(.25)	1.00	1.11	1.09	1.00	1.00	0.00	0.03	0.17	0.14	0.00
Median	1.01	1.72	1.22	1.00	1.00	0.39	0.11	0.26	0.18	0.07
Stdev	2.44	2.77	0.78	1.46	2.29	5.11	2.93	1.23	0.72	1.07
Kurtosis	2.13	5.83	0.87	6.23	2.09	14.88	29.86	10.22	16.88	18.04
Skewness	1.96	2.33	1.56	2.73	1.90	3.65	5.10	3.23	4.02	4.03

EG_$R_t$, MLE_$R_t$, SB_$R_t$, TD_$R_t$, and Epi_$R_t$ refer to $R_t$ estimated by the EG, MLE, SB, TD and Epi methods, respectively. EG_CI_W, MLE_CI_W, SB_CI_W, TD_CI_W, and Epi_CI_W represent the widths of their respective 95% confidence intervals.