Impact of the model parameters A, μ, tI on the estimates of the escape rates.

We use the same simulations as described in Table 1 to investigate the impact of A, μ, tI on escape rate estimates using Eq (3). We set one of A, μ, tI to a value, as shown in the column labels, and set the other two values to the true value of the escape, which we record during the simulations, and then compute the relative error of the escape rate estimate. Changing the value of each of the three parameters within a reasonable range can lead to under or over estimates.