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. 2022 Oct 27;21:15. doi: 10.1186/s12942-022-00317-0

Table 3.

Prior distribution used to estimate index P

Parameter Notation Mean Stdev Reference studies taken by Obolski et al. [11]
adult mosquito life-span 1/μ(u,t)v 12 days 2 [24]; [26]
mosquito incubation period 1/γ(t)v 7 days 2 [27]; [28]; [29]
mosquito biting rate a(u)v 0.25/day 0.01 [30]; [25]
human life-span 1/μh 71 years 3
human incubation period 1/γh 5.8 days 1 [31]; [27]; [32]
human infections period 1/σh 5.9 days 1 [31]; [27]; [32]
human to mosquito probability of transmission ϕhv 0.5 0.01

Source: Obolski et al. [18]