CDCgov / ww-inference-model

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
https://cdcgov.github.io/ww-inference-model/
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Enable fitting of multiple admissions catchment areas with a user supplied mapping of subpopulations #223

Open kaitejohnson opened 1 month ago

kaitejohnson commented 1 month ago

Goal

Under the hood, subpopulation-level incident infections are being generated. We want users to be able to 1 generate estimates of latent hospital admissions at the count catchment level desired, and/or fit the model directly to multiple count data streams. To do this, we would start by assuming that wastewater catchment areas are the same or smaller than count catchment areas, and that all wastewater catchment areas can be contained within a count catchment area. Then the user would just need to provide a mapping of count catchment area to wastewater catchment areas, and the package could fit directly to these observations and return more granular forecasts.

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