The Burr distribution as a model for the delay between key events in an individual’s infection history
Table 3
Comparing Burr, log-normal and Weibull models with the gamma model on anthrax, salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis datasets.
For brevity, we define the datasets as A, S or C to represent anthrax, salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis datasets respectively. The numbers in the dataset column indicate which dataset for a given disease is being referred to, as we have multiple incubation-period datasets for Salmonella and Campylobacter. The value provided is the difference between the recorded AIC between a given model and the gamma distribution. Negative values indicate lower AIC, which is preferable. Similarly, positive values indicate higher AIC, which implies a worse model fit.