is return variable infections from estimate_infections() returns new exposed cases or new infected individuals that have end the latent period ? #1120
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When using estimate_infections(), it returns a variable name "infections", we have read the documentation but we are not sure if it refers to new exposed cases or new infected individuals that have end the latent period ? As far as I understand the generation interval used in the renewal equation of the infections refer to the delay between a newly exposed cased to a secondary exposed case so the variable "infections" would probably mean new exposed cases. Is it the case ? |
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Yes, I think your interpretation is correct - in the model used in |
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Thank you very much for the follow up, sounds like what we were thinking about :) |
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Yes, I think your interpretation is correct - in the model used in
estimate_infections()we don't explicitly define a latent period. Instead, the latent period could be seen as contained in the generation interval, which the distribution of the time that passes between "A infects B" and "B infects C" across all A-B-C infection chains in the population.