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Table 2 Best fitted model parameters estimates

From: Dynamic models of pneumococcal carriage and the impact of the Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease

US vaccine coverage

cN

Degree

Epsilon

Waning

Duration of PCV7 protection

Deviance

80%

0.86

0.85

0.88

0.12

8.5

381.09

82%

0.85

0.82

0.88

0.12

8.5

381.16

84%

0.86

0.79

0.88

0.12

8.3

382.16

86%

0.85

0.76

0.87

0.12

8.3

383.12

88%

0.85

0.73

0.87

0.12

8.0

384.48

90%

0.85

0.70

0.86

0.13

7.7

386.29

  1. Best fitted results of cN (competition parameter), epsilon (mixing parameter), waning (1/duration of vaccine protection), degree of vaccine protection, and Poisson deviance from the optimization according to a 1+ dose of US PCV7 coverage