2019-nCoV Transmission in Hubei Province, China: Stochastic and Deterministic Analyses

Table 2

The estimated values of model parameters by least-squares method.

Parameters	Definition	Initial values	Estimated values
	Input rate into the susceptible group	0.003	0.0034
	Contact rate in the exposed period	0.478	0.2800
	Contact rate in the infectious period	0.368	0.2936
	Transfer rate from exposed to the infectious period	0.500	0.5554
	Disease-caused death rate in the infectious period	0.023	0.0280
	Natural death rate	—

The estimation of is from [33].