estimateRtAvg {nbTransmission}

Estimates the average effective reproductive number

Description

Averages the time-level reproductive numbers within a certain range to estimate the overall reproductive number for an oubreak.

Usage

estimateRtAvg(rtData, rangeForAvg = NULL)

Arguments

rtData

The name of the dateset with time-level reproductive numbers.

rangeForAvg

A vector with the start and ending time period to be used to calculate the average effective reproductive number.

Details

This function is meant to be called by estimateR which estimates the individual-level and time-level, and average reproductive numbers, but it can also be run directly.

Value

A data frame with the average effective reproductive. Column names:

• RtAvg - the average time-level reproductive number between the range specified in rangeForAvg.

See Also

estimateR estimateRi estimateRt