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()
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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()
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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.