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Table 2 Rm estimates with 95% credible intervals for clumped and non-clumped egg-laying under linear and fitted power density dependence

From: Fine-scale estimation of key life-history parameters of malaria vectors: implications for next-generation vector control technologies

 

Clumped

Non-clumped

Linear

Fitted power

Linear

Fitted power

Simulated

3.099 (2.027–4.408)

13.532 (3.775–26.543)

3.407 (2.506–4.883)

31.958 (10.891–71.342)

Analytical

4.007 (2.6–6.148)

16.314 (4.588–34.256)

5.449 (3.778–7.721)

45.321 (13.708–90.157)

  1. Rm is calculated in two ways, numerically by simulating the model for a single female mosquito until its death in a system empty of other adults and recording the number of female offspring surviving to adulthood, and analytically as described in the methods. For the Rm estimate simulations, the median parameters from the pMCMC posterior estimates were used. To estimate 95% credible intervals, 500 parameter sets were randomly taken from the pMCMC results and the Rm simulation run 50 times with these values and a mean taken. The credible intervals were then estimated from the resulting 500 mean values