Research Article

Parameter Estimation in Ordinary Differential Equations Modeling via Particle Swarm Optimization

Table 2

Parameter ranges for cholera model.

Name Description Lower bound Upper bound

Natural birth rate of humans NA

Natural death rate of humans NA

Half-saturation constant of vibrios NA

Starting bacterial concentration

Proportion of hospitalizations

Ingestion rate of vibrios

Infectivity for susceptible

Rate of contribution by infected

Recovery rate of infected

Decay rate of vibrios to non-HI state

Rate of waning immunity