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Table 5 Model performance for the count index cases with infected contacts

From: Sensitivity of contact-tracing for COVID-19 in Thailand: a capture-recapture application

Model

Log-likelihood

AIC

BIC

Poisson (\({\hat{\lambda }}\) = 1.126)

\(-\)32.6684

67.3368

68.738

Negative Binomial (mue = 1.176, size = 1175.709)

\(-\)32.6914

69.3829

72.1853

Geometric (\({\hat{p}}\) = 0.6)

\(-\)33.6506

69.3012

70.7024

  1. Bold values indicate show that Poisson is the best fit for the distribution of the number of index cases with infected contacts (n=30) due to the smallest AIC and BIC