The expected variability in the wastewater measurements is a function of the number of contributing infections. The model doesn't currently have any component to account for the population size/number of infections
Assuming we can write the infected individuals distribution of number of genomes shed over the course of infection as:
$$g_i \sim \mathrm{Gamma}(\kappa, \theta)$$
Which has mean $\kappa\theta$.
Then the sum of the genomes in each infected individual should be:
Problem
The expected variability in the wastewater measurements is a function of the number of contributing infections. The model doesn't currently have any component to account for the population size/number of infections
Assuming we can write the infected individuals distribution of number of genomes shed over the course of infection as: $$g_i \sim \mathrm{Gamma}(\kappa, \theta)$$
Which has mean $\kappa\theta$.
Then the sum of the genomes in each infected individual should be:
with mean $I(t)\kappa\theta$, because the mean of a gamma is shape *scale
The original write-up in #57 has the scale parameter also scaling with $I(t)$.
Context: https://github.com/cdcent/cfa-forecast-renewal-ww/issues/57