Table 2.

Point and interval estimates of quantities of interest for the Samoan measles case study.

Type	Quantity		MLE	Profile	Bootstrap	Truth
	Interpretation	Symbol
Parameters	Infectivity	β	0.870	–	[0.813–0.920]	–
	Incubation	γ	0.717	–	[0.657–0.772]	–
	Recovery	α	0.350	–	[0.316–0.380]	–
	Hospitalisation	η	0.176	–	[0.162–0.186]	–
	Discharge	δ	0.306	–	[0.295–0.318]	–
	Death	μ	0.0186	–	[0.0173–0.0200]	–
State Values	Total Cases		5785	[5593–6006]	[5621–6043]	5707
	Total Deaths		111	[102–120]	[104–120]	83
Quantities	Number	${\mathcal{R}}_c$	1.648	[1.586–1.717]	[1.596–1.712]	–