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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 that (log) concavity "result" is useful #8

Open maxbiostat opened 5 years ago

maxbiostat commented 5 years ago

I wrote it mainly because I thought it was important to show where the density is concave. But then I realised that the bound I derived is always larger than the mode (and zero when the mode is zero).

The main concern about concavity is exactly ensuring the distribution is (strongly) unimodal. So I'm unsure the result in \ref{eq:logconcavity} is useful.