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Some remarks on prior modelling for the basic reproductive number in the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemic model
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Check correction for population size #14

Open maxbiostat opened 6 years ago

maxbiostat commented 6 years ago

To increase realism one can correct the prior on R0 to have bounded support [0, N]. This is implemented for the Gamma ratio in the function dgamma.ratio.Ncorrected(), here.

Question is whether this makes any difference in practice.