Table 2 Input parameter values and distributions.
From: Modeling pediatric antibiotic use in an area of declining malaria prevalence
Parameter | Description | Distribution | Base value | Range | Histogram of parameter estimates following a Beta distribution |
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\({P}_{Malaria only}\) | Prevalence of malaria-only diagnoses | Beta(139.0, 226.3) | 0.38 | 0.29, 0.48 |
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\({P}_{Mixed}\) | Prevalence of mixed malaria-NMFI diagnoses | \(\frac{{P}_{{Mixed}_{Base}}*(1-{P}_{Malaria only})}{1-{P}_{{Malaria only}_{Base}}}\) | 0.14 | 0.12, 0.16 |
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\({P}_{NMFI}\) | Prevalence of NMFI diagnoses | \(\frac{{P}_{{NMFI}_{Base}}*\left({1-P}_{Malaria only}-{P}_{Mixed}\right)}{{1-P}_{{Malaria only}_{Base}}-{P}_{{Mixed}_{Base}}}\) | 0.48 | 0.40, 0.55 |
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\({AB}_{Malaria only}\) | Prevalence of antibiotic use among malaria-only diagnoses | Beta(139.1, 227.0) | 0.38 | 0.30, 0.47 |
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\({AB}_{Mixed}\) | Prevalence of antibiotic use among mixed diagnoses | Beta(64.6, 26.4) | 0.71 | 0.53, 0.86 |
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\({AB}_{NMFI}\) | Prevalence of antibiotic use among NMFI diagnoses | Beta(39.3, 8.5) | 0.82 | 0.54, 0.97 |
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