Modelling the Transmission Dynamics of Tuberculosis in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Table 7

Estimation of overall infection rate and other epidemic thresholds of the entire region using different sampling sampling schemes.

Sampling scheme	Parameters	Estimates	Bias
Bootstrap		0.28278	0.00928
		0.53529	0.01729
		−0.07298	0.00102
		−0.86825	0.06225
Jackknife		0.28279	0.00929
		0.53531	0.01731
		−0.07297	0.00103
		−0.86807	0.06243
Latin hypercube		0.28148	0.00798
		0.53282	0.01482
		−0.07331	0.00069
		−0.87682	0.05368

Empirical estimates: , , , and .