Table 6 Estimates of unobserved index cases with infected contacts, population size and 95% CI (n = 30) for the three approaches (based upon the Poisson model)
From: Sensitivity of contact-tracing for COVID-19 in Thailand: a capture-recapture application
Estimators | \({\hat{f}}_0\) | \({\hat{N}}\) | BT median | 95% CI | CI from percentile BT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MLE | 14.37 | 44.38 | 45.51 | 36.62–54.40 | 33.87–64.17 |
Turing | 14.12 | 44.12 | 45.47 | 36.01–54.94 | 33.29–64.63 |
Chao | 14.22 | 44.22 | 45.5 | 33.21 \(-\)57.79 | 31.64–77.40 |