@@ -70,16 +76,16 @@ symptomatic, to when another individual who is infected by the infector
becomes symptomatic. The serial interval refers to a range of likely
values from this distribution, although it is typically reported as the
mean.
-
In the White and Pagano method, the serial distribution is assumed to
-be a discretized, finite version of a gamma distribution. Setting the
-parameter serial to TRUE causes this
-discretized distribution to be returned in addition to the estimate of
-R0. Furthermore, the method can be used whether or not the serial
-interval (specified as the parameter mu) is known. When
-mu is specified, it is taken to be the mean of a continuous
-gamma distribution (i.e., before the discretization). As such, the mean
-computed from the returned serial distribution may differ slightly from
-mu:
+
In the White and Pagano method, wp(), the serial
+distribution is assumed to be a discretized, finite version of a gamma
+distribution. Setting the parameter serial to
+TRUE causes this discretized distribution to be returned in
+addition to the estimate of R0. Furthermore, the method can be used
+whether or not the serial interval (specified as the parameter
+mu) is known. When mu is specified, it is
+taken to be the mean of a continuous gamma distribution (i.e., before
+the discretization). As such, the mean computed from the returned serial
+distribution may differ slightly from mu:
# Case counts.cases<-c(1, 4, 10, 5, 3, 4, 19, 3, 3, 14, 4)
@@ -124,11 +130,11 @@ estimates of the serial interval: