Fig. 3

The effect of synchronization. The dark line represents the median effect size over individuals in the population. The effect size is defined as the increase in mean outbreak size between a disease for which the latent periods follow a log-Normal distribution with a mode of 11 h, and one which has a mode of 23 h (dispersion factors are equal). Points correspond to the values on the horizontal axis for which the effect size was computed and the gray area is the inter-quartile range. We see that the synchronization effect observed in “Influence of the latent period on disease impact” Section is present for a wide range of parameters values in the disease model