Improved Estimation of the Initial Number of Susceptible Individuals in the General Stochastic Epidemic Model Using Penalized Likelihood

Table 2

Simulation results for , , replications = 1000, and = endemic rate.

		av	sd	av	av	sd	av	)^a	av
	100	1.34	0.20	0.25	98.7	30.6	36.9	89.0	57.6
	250	1.45	0.16	0.19	247.6	58.1	60.8	89.4	143.4
	1000	1.49	0.10	0.10	1004.1	117.9	118.2	93.1	578.6
	5000	1.50	0.05	0.05	5011.0	249.3	247.7	94.7	2907.1
	100	1.21	0.18	0.24	93.4	34.0	43.7	86.5	48.4
	250	1.31	0.15	0.19	227.0	71.7	79.9	82.3	112.6
	1000	1.32	0.09	0.11	947.0	209.2	213.0	85.8	425.2
	5000	1.30	0.05	0.05	4965.1	540.7	536.1	92.5	2107.4
	100	1.24	0.19	0.23	104.6	30.5	42.8	92.5	57.2
	250	1.32	0.15	0.18	251.8	63.6	76.1	90.7	131.4
	1000	1.33	0.09	0.10	1002.9	178.3	190.9	91.7	473.9
	5000	1.31	0.05	0.05	5020.8	488.4	492.0	94.6	2205.1

Coverage ratio for .