Get a Literature Distribution for the Incubation Period — get_incubation

Extracts a literature distribution from incubation_periods.

Usage

get_incubation_period(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_incubation_period(disease = "SARS-CoV-2", source = "lauer")
#> 
#>   Uncertain lognormal distribution with (untruncated) logmean 1.6 (SD 0.064) and logSD 0.42 (SD 0.069)
#>