Figure 2
From: Reporting errors in infectious disease outbreaks, with an application to Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1
Simulation results for the estimate of the mean of the serial interval. The first boxplot in each frame shows results when all the data is used. Each couplet thereafter shows estimates when missingness is correctly accounted for on the left and on the right, when missingness is ignored in estimation. The numbers on the × axis denote the missingness scheme applied to the data(see text of manuscript for a detailed description). The horizontal line indicates the true value of the parameter. For several of the gamma distribution scenarios the actual estimates are extremely large and thus the value of the median is included on the plot where necessary.