Research Article

The Role of Migration in Maintaining the Transmission of Avian Influenza in Waterfowl: A Multisite Multispecies Transmission Model along East Asian-Australian Flyway

Table 1

Parameter estimates of the multisites multispecies transmission model.

ParameterNotationEstimate (95% CrI)

Regional coefficient (high-latitude)1.082 (0.946, 1.394)
(mid-latitude)1.102 (0.963, 1.394)
(Oceania)0.823 (0.201, 1.036)
Contact rate (mallard)0.331 (0.296, 0.338)
(ducks)0.266 (0.223, 0.294)
(others)0.219 (0.040, 0.262)
Species-specific migration rate (mallard)0.00281 (0.00052, 0.01127)
(ducks)0.00356 (0.00066, 0.01414)
(others)0.02648 (0.00759, 0.03170)
Logarithm of the ratio of migration between areasāˆ’2.578 (āˆ’4.987, 1.088)