The incidental package provides an empirical Bayes estimator for fitting incidence curves from a specified delay distribution, which describes the probability that a case will be reported on day d after infection.
To learn more about incidental, start with the vignettes: `browseVignettes(package = "incidental")`
fit_incidence
: main function for fitting incidence.
incidence_to_df
: utility function to translate output of fit_incidence
into a data frame.
plot
: plots the results of fit_incidence
.
spanish_flu_delay_dist
: incidence to death delay distribution for the Spanish Flu.
spanish_flu
: flu mortality data for Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia from 1919-09-01 through 1919-12-31.
covid_delay_dist
: incidence to recorded cases, hospitalization, and death delay distribution for COVID-19.
covid_new_york_city
: incidence to recorded cases, hospitalization, and death for New York City for COVID-19.