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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2009 Nov;3(6):267–276. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2009.00106.x

Table 2.

Estimates of the reproductive number the mean of the serial interval is 3.6 days with standard deviation of 1.6 days (7) or mean of 1.91 days and standard deviation of 1 days (10). Italicized results reflect results accounting for an 11% per day increase in reporting fraction starting April 13.

4/25/09 4/26/09 4/27/09 4/28/09
R^0 (Conf Interval); Mean SI=3.6 days Original Data 3.48 (2.88, 3.72) 3.29 (2.85, 3.47) 2.87 (2.55, 3.06) 2.59 (2.31, 2.77)
2.57 (2.39, 3.13) 2.48 (2.30, 2.81) 2.25 (2.04, 2.46) 2.05 (1.80, 2.16)
Imputed Data 3.56 (2.90, 3.80) 3.65 (3.10, 3.88) 3.83 (3.46, 4.12) 3.53 (3.23, 3.70)
2.61 (2.43, 3.19) 2.68 (2.50, 3.14) 2.78 (2.69, 3.23) 2.61 (2.47, 2.86)
Augmented Data 3.62 (2.94, 3.89) 3.79 (3.27, 4.05) 4.11 (3.74, 4.42) 3.94 (3.72, 4.22)
2.66 (2.48, 3.23) 2.79 (2.61, 3.26) 2.97 (2.88, 3.45) 2.88 (2.79, 3.19)
R^0 (Conf Interval); Mean SI=1.91 days Original Data 1.99 (1.77, 2.26) 1.86 (1.71, 2.08) 1.72 (1.55, 1.90) 1.63 (1.51, 1.80)
1.76 (1.64, 2.11) 1.66 (1.54, 1.88) 1.54 (1.39, 1.71) 1.45 (1.32, 1.59)
Imputed Data 2.03 (1.79, 2.31) 2.05 (1.85, 2.30) 2.22 (2.11, 2.53) 2.04 (1.97, 2.28)
1.80 (1.68, 2.17) 1.78 (1.68, 2.09) 1.87 (1.85, 2.23) 1.74 (1.70, 2.00)
Augmented Data 2.05 (1.80, 2.35) 2.11 (1.95, 2.38) 2.34 (2.27, 2.66) 2.20 (2.18, 2.45)
1.82 (1.69, 2.16) 1.84 (1.75, 2.14) 1.97 (1.97, 2.32) 1.87 (1.85, 2.08)
Num Cases Original Data 275 392 529 681
Imputed Data 282 435 689 940
Augmented Data 295.0 471.3 786.3 1130.6