default_fill_missing_obs(data, obs, obs_column)
data set with missing dates filled in as na values
A <data.frame>
of disease reports (confirm) by date (date).
confirm
must be numeric and date
must be in date format. Optionally
this can also have a logical accumulate
column which indicates whether
data should be added to the next data point. This is useful when modelling
e.g. weekly incidence data. See also the fill_missing()
function which
helps add the accumulate
column with the desired properties when dealing
with non-daily data. If any accumulation is done this happens after
truncation as specified by the truncation
argument.
A list of options as generated by obs_opts()
defining the
observation model. Defaults to obs_opts()
.
Character (default: "confirm"). If given, only the column specified here will be used for checking missingness. This is useful if using a data set that has multiple columns of hwich one of them corresponds to observations that are to be processed here.