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Table 1 Details of all the distributions of the infection times used for the explicit stochastic network simulations

From: A monotonic relationship between the variability of the infectious period and final size in pairwise epidemic modelling

Distribution

Parameters

Mean

Variance

Fixed

3/2

3/2

0

Uniform

U(1,2)

3/2

1/12 = 0.08(3)

Gamma

scale = 0.5, shape = 3

3/2

0.75

Exponential

2/3

3/2

9/4 = 2.25

Lognormal

σ = 1, μ = ln(3/2)−1/2

3/2

3.866

Weibull

scale = 1, shape = 0.6014

3/2

6.914