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R handbook for field epidemiologists
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EpiNow2 usage #170

Open seabbs opened 3 years ago

seabbs commented 3 years ago

Hallo,

Firstly this is a really nice project and one that I can imagine myself and colleagues referring to quite a bit in the future.

I am an author on the EpiNow2 package mentioned in the modelling epidemics section (thank you for the inclusion). I am interested in any feedback as we will shortly be doing more development work. Any thoughts (can be as critical as you would like!) very welcome.

I'd also like to point out that some of the negatives mentioned (all very fair) for the EpiNow2 library (run time being the biggest) can be mitigated using various options (one of them being to essentially produce a day of the week smoothed version of EpiEstim). I agree these features are currently not well surfaced and in the next release I aim to make it clear that you can transition from "accurate" but slow to fast and less accurate with more detail on what each approximation means.

Thanks, Sam

(note this is really more of a discussion than an issue so happy to take this to a better venue)

nsbatra commented 3 years ago

@seabbs thanks for reaching out! I'm tagging @finlaycampbell who wrote the epidemic modeling page - perhaps you know each other already. I'm sure there's plenty of discussion to be had as you continue the development of EpiNow2. And I agree that this is probably a conversation better suited for email. @seabbs if you can email me at epiRhandbook@gmail.com then I can connect the three of us that way?

finlaycampbell commented 3 years ago

Hi Sean, thanks for the comments - I hope I did epinow justice (which is a really great package BTW!), and apologies if I missed some options that would make it more useful to people. Let's continue over email, and happy to update the page ASAP if there are things I should add!