When first records of incidence are unavailable, tries to impute censored cases to rebuild longer epidemic vector.
censored.deviation(optim.vect, epid, R0, GT)The deviation between \(E(N_{t})\) and \(N_{t}\) : sum((E(Nt) - Nt)^2).
Vector of two elements c(multiplicative factor, log(highest imputed data)) corresponding to initial values.
Original epidemic vector, output of check.incid().
Assumed R0 value for the original epidemic vector.
Generation time distribution to be used for computations.
Pierre-Yves Boelle, Thomas Obadia
For internal use. Called by impute.incid().
This function is not intended for stand-alone use. It computes the difference between theoretical incidence and observed epidemics, for a given vector of initial values. To find the find best-fitting incidence values, this same vector must be optimized, to minimize the value returned by SCE.