get_dist {EpiNow2}

Get a Literature Distribution

Description

Search a data frame for a distribution and return it in the format expected by delay_opts() and the generation_time argument of epinow and estimate_infections.

Usage

get_dist(data, disease, source, max_value = 15, fixed = FALSE)

Arguments

data

A data.table in the format of generation_times.

disease

A character string indicating the disease of interest.

source

A character string indicating the source of interest.

max_value

Numeric, the maximum value to allow. Defaults to 15 days.

fixed

Logical, defaults to FALSE. Should distributions be supplied as fixed values (vs with uncertainty)?

Value

A list defining a distribution

Author(s)

Sam Abbott

Examples

get_dist(
 EpiNow2::generation_times, disease = "SARS-CoV-2", source = "ganyani"
)