Open athowes opened 3 months ago
We should consider making the vignette more accessible by moving some material to an appendix or providing clearer explanations:
- As a Bayesian newcomer, I also found the explanations quite happy technically. Could you consider moving that to an "appendix" in the vignette so that it doesn't distract the reader who only cares about the immediate results?
Originally posted by @jamesmbaazam in https://github.com/epinowcast/epidist/issues/69#issuecomment-2225787244
I agree that these are all intereting research topics that could be explored.
I think
We should consider making the vignette more accessible by moving some material to an appendix or providing clearer explanations:
Is really its own issue and we should consider doing this sooner rather than later (potentially @jamesmbaazam would be interested in tackling).
See also this thread on the Stan forum: https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/using-pathfinder-and-other-algorithms-to-infer-epidemiological-delay-distributions-and-to-initialise-rt-estimates/35929/3
In PR https://github.com/epinowcast/epidist/pull/69 we added a vignette fitting a simple model with four inference techniques. This includes Pathfinder, which I also presented about here.
There are a variety of improvements I think could be made to the vignette. Some of these improvements are closer to research projects:
epidist
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