An in-development R package and a Bayesian hierarchical model jointly fitting multiple "local" wastewater data streams and "global" case count data to produce nowcasts and forecasts of both observations
Currently, we can run the model without using the wastewater observations, but the package will error if nothing is passed in to the ww_data arg. This should not be the case. Instead, as a temporary solution we should pass in an empty vector that will not get used by stan, and allow the unit tests forbidding the model to be run to be skipped.
Features:
[ ] ability to pass in an empty vector/NULL for ww_data in the call to wwinference()
[ ] adjust vignette to use this functionality rather than still passing wastewater
[ ] warn user that wastewater isn't passed in and therefore isn't being used
@dylanhmorris my instinct is that this would be best addressed after #149, since we will be able to properly default to n_subpops=1 whenever n_sites = 0. Let me know what you think.
Goal
Currently, we can run the model without using the wastewater observations, but the package will error if nothing is passed in to the
ww_data
arg. This should not be the case. Instead, as a temporary solution we should pass in an empty vector that will not get used by stan, and allow the unit tests forbidding the model to be run to be skipped.Features:
ww_data
in the call towwinference()
@dylanhmorris my instinct is that this would be best addressed after #149, since we will be able to properly default to
n_subpops=1
whenevern_sites = 0
. Let me know what you think.