Gostic 2020 - Practical Considerations for Measuring Rt

Routing Summary

Full capture of Gostic et al. (2020), PLoS Comput Biol 16(12): e1008409, used as the open substitute for Cori et al. (2013). 5 notes.

Concept Map

ConceptNoteTypeDepends OnKey Result
Instantaneous vs case Gostic 2020 - Instantaneous vs Case Reproductive Number and the Three Estimatorsdefinitionrenewal equationcase leads by about one mean GI
Generation-interval biasGostic 2020 - Generation Interval and the Renewal Equationtheoremrenewal equationbias grows away from
Delay and truncationGostic 2020 - Rt Estimation Pipeline and Right-Truncation Biasconceptforward delaybackward convolution over-smooths
Smoothing windowGostic 2020 - Observation Process, Smoothing Windows and RecommendationsconceptCori estimatorreport at midpoint

Notes

Sources

  • Gostic 2020 - Practical Considerations for Measuring the Effective Reproductive Number Rt

See Also

McGough 2020 - Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing - Overview