Get a Literature Distribution for the Generation Time — get_generation

Extracts a literature distribution from generation_times.

Usage

get_generation_time(disease, source, max_value = 15, fixed = FALSE)

Arguments

disease: A character string indicating the disease of interest.
source: A character string indicating the source of interest.
max_value: Numeric, the maximum value to allow. Defaults to 15 days.
fixed: Logical, defaults to FALSE. Should distributions be supplied as fixed values (vs with uncertainty)?

Value

A list defining a distribution

Author

Sam Abbott

Examples

get_generation_time(disease = "SARS-CoV-2", source = "ganyani")
#> 
#>   Uncertain gamma distribution with (untruncated) mean 3.6 (SD 0.71) and SD 3.1 (SD 0.77)
#>