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Estimate a Delay Distribution

Source: R/estimate_delay.R
estimate_delay.Rd

[Maturing] Estimate a log normal delay distribution from a vector of integer delays. Currently this function is a simple wrapper for bootstrapped_dist_fit().

Usage

estimate_delay(delays, ...)

Arguments

delays

Integer vector of delays

...

Arguments to pass to internal methods.

Value

A <dist_spec> summarising the bootstrapped distribution

See also

bootstrapped_dist_fit()

Examples

# \donttest{
# bootstraps and samples have been reduced for this example
delays <- rlnorm(500, log(5), 1)
estimate_delay(delays, samples = 500, bootstraps = 2)
#> WARN [2026-02-10 19:24:14] dist_fit (chain: 1): Bulk Effective Samples Size (ESS) is too low, indicating posterior means and medians may be unreliable.
#> Running the chains for more iterations may help. See
#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#bulk-ess - 
#> WARN [2026-02-10 19:24:14] dist_fit (chain: 2): Bulk Effective Samples Size (ESS) is too low, indicating posterior means and medians may be unreliable.
#> Running the chains for more iterations may help. See
#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#bulk-ess - 
#> WARN [2026-02-10 19:24:14] dist_fit (chain: 1): Tail Effective Samples Size (ESS) is too low, indicating posterior variances and tail quantiles may be unreliable.
#> Running the chains for more iterations may help. See
#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#tail-ess - 
#> WARN [2026-02-10 19:24:14] dist_fit (chain: 2): Tail Effective Samples Size (ESS) is too low, indicating posterior variances and tail quantiles may be unreliable.
#> Running the chains for more iterations may help. See
#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#tail-ess - 
#> WARN [2026-02-10 19:24:16] dist_fit (chain: 1): Bulk Effective Samples Size (ESS) is too low, indicating posterior means and medians may be unreliable.
#> Running the chains for more iterations may help. See
#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#bulk-ess - 
#> WARN [2026-02-10 19:24:16] dist_fit (chain: 2): Bulk Effective Samples Size (ESS) is too low, indicating posterior means and medians may be unreliable.
#> Running the chains for more iterations may help. See
#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#bulk-ess - 
#> WARN [2026-02-10 19:24:16] dist_fit (chain: 1): Tail Effective Samples Size (ESS) is too low, indicating posterior variances and tail quantiles may be unreliable.
#> Running the chains for more iterations may help. See
#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#tail-ess - 
#> WARN [2026-02-10 19:24:16] dist_fit (chain: 2): Tail Effective Samples Size (ESS) is too low, indicating posterior variances and tail quantiles may be unreliable.
#> Running the chains for more iterations may help. See
#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#tail-ess - 
#> - lognormal distribution (max: 99):
#>   meanlog:
#>     - normal distribution:
#>       mean:
#>         1.5
#>       sd:
#>         0.088
#>   sdlog:
#>     - normal distribution:
#>       mean:
#>         1.1
#>       sd:
#>         0.056
# }