Appendix 2—figure 1. Pairwise correlations of MCMC samples indicate that the parameter set $\theta \ni ({\mu }_R^{\prime },{\mu }_R^{\prime \prime },\rho ,{\psi }_{N_1},{\psi }_{N_2},\beta )$ is likely identifiable.

The highest correlation coefficient observed was 0.54 between ${\mu }_R^{\prime }$ (daily background RBC mortality rate during infection) and ${\mu }_R^{\prime \prime }$ (density-independent RBC replenishment rate during infection).