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Table 4 Confidence intervals (95 %) for estimates of mu, with the “best-fit” GSS model, based on the original (empirical) data set, from bootstrapped data sets and from simulations (where mu = 0)

From: Observations on Neotricula aperta (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) population densities in Thailand and central Laos: implications for the spread of Mekong schistosomiasis

Population

mu (empirical)

C.I. for mu (empirical)

C.I. for simulations

C.I. bootstrapped data

BKL

5.6178e-05

−1.1812e-04 to 2.3048e-04

−1.2157e-07 to 1.1975e-07

−1.0721e-05 to 1.2234e-04

MHX

4.1704e-04

1.5234e-05 to 8.1885e-04

−3.9497e-06 to 3.9043e-06

1.3536e-04 to 5.3538e-04

  1. Starting X values for the simulations were the observations made at t = 0 (i.e. in 1991 and 1992 for BKL and MHX, respectively).
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