may be misleading. It looks like beta_dict is not a dictionary of transmission rates, but rather a dictionary of the conflated quantity
beta * w_ij
Is this correct?
In other words, the transmission rate (which we currently assume is constant across the network, and is a parameter that needs to be inferred in data assimilation) is multiplied by the average contact rate. I think it is incorrect to call this product of terms "beta".
glwagner
commented
4 years ago
This function
https://github.com/dburov190/risk-networks/blob/00c5ab689f8cd4bb8b1fe286c49c681390af327d/epiforecast/kinetic_model_simulator.py#L235
may be misleading. It looks like
beta_dictis not a dictionary of transmission rates, but rather a dictionary of the conflated quantityIs this correct?
In other words, the transmission rate (which we currently assume is constant across the network, and is a parameter that needs to be inferred in data assimilation) is multiplied by the average contact rate. I think it is incorrect to call this product of terms "beta".
cc @odunbar @tapios @dburov190 @lubo93