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Table 5 Fitted distributions for observational incubation time studies, Plasmodium vivax malaria

From: The distribution of incubation and relapse times in experimental human infections with the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax

Standard distributions

Mixture distributions

Base model

∆ DIC

Base model

∆ DIC

exponential

952.4

exponential

551.5

gamma

570.6

gamma

171.8

Gompertz

874.2

Gompertz

297.7

log-logistic

719.3

log-logistic

0.0

log-normal

688.4

log-normal

41.5

Weilbull

611.9

Weilbull

193.4

DIC of best-fit model

  

2876.7

  1. (Note: shifted distributions showed extremely poor fit and are not reported).
  2. The best fitting distribution is shown in bold.