Fig. 5
From: An artificially simulated outbreak of a respiratory infectious disease

Generation period. Legend: The black curve represents the point estimate for the generation period, and the blue shaded area represents the estimated interval calculated using the bootstrap method. The median was 8.26 days (95% CI: 7.84–8.69 days), with 3.72 days representing the 5% quantile (95% CI: 3.15–4.35 days) and 12.96 days representing the 95% quantile (95% CI: 11.71–14.36 days)