Table 2. Description of the parameters of the malaria transmission model.

Parameter	Description	Prior ranges	Unit	Reference
μ BS †	Birth rate	(57*365)-1	day-1	Census
δ †	Death rate	(53*365)-1	day-1	Census
μ EI ‡	Duration of parasite incubation	7–14	day	Lit[45]
μ TS †	Duration of treatment + prophylaxis	30	day	Lit[78–83]
μ IR †	Duration of untreated infection	5	day	Lit[84–87]
fT†	Proportion of infected receiving full treatment	0.5	-	Lit[74]
μ RS ‡	Duration of patent/sub-patent period	120–365	day	Lit[43,49,88–90]
PMH†	Probability of transmission from mosquito to human	0.5	-	Lit[50,91]
PHM†	Probability of transmission from human to mosquito	0.125	-	Lit[76,92,93]
qR‡	Infectivity of non-clinical cases relative to clinical cases	0–0.5 * (PHM)	-	Lit[46–48]
ε†	Number of eggs laid per gonotrophic cycle	50	-	Lit[94–96]
μ M †	Daily adult mortality rate	-ln 0.98	-	-
a.R‡	Egg-adult sensitivity to surface moisture	0–1	-	See supplement
b.R‡	Mean anomaly of accumulated rainfall	-5–5	-	See supplement
D‡	Length of accumulated rainfall contributing to mosquito breeding	7–200	day	Lit[20, 72, 97, 98]
s‡	Population scaling factor	0–1	-	-

^† Indicates model parameter values that are fixed based on literature or demographic data, whereas

^‡ indicates parameter values that are inferred from model fitting of observed data.