Figure 7
Maximum Likelihood (ML)-estimates for the transmission rate parameters for the modified 2007 dataset. The transmission rate parameters (λ0, α and r0) during the BTV-8 epidemic in 2007 are estimated for the modified 2007 dataset, in which the 2006 outbreak area is removed by taking out circles with varying excision radius around each case of the 2006 outbreak. The parameter value for the 2006 German kernel is added for comparison (dashed line).