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List priority epidemiological parameters for the database #238

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joshwlambert opened this issue Feb 13, 2024 · 1 comment
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List priority epidemiological parameters for the database #238

joshwlambert opened this issue Feb 13, 2024 · 1 comment
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Please also add explanation for why the epidemiological parameters are a priority and the use case that it applies to (including R packages). E.g. an Ebola onset-to-death distribution is required for calculating the unbiased case-fatality risk using the R package {cfr}.

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Some I can think of from models currently included in {epidemics}; some might already be included in {epiparameter}.

  1. Incubation period; this is used to calculate the transition from exposed to infection ($\sigma$);
  2. Onset to hospitalisation; for the hospitalisation rate in the Vacamole model $\eta$;
  3. Hospitalisation to outcome (recovery/death);

Would I be right in thinking that onset-to-death distributions could be generalised to any outcome? Or would onset-to-recovery (for the recovery rate) be expected to be much different?

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