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diff --git a/inst/app/templates/content/estimation/about-estimators/idea.html b/inst/app/templates/content/estimation/about-estimators/idea.html index edfbb79..798baad 100644 --- a/inst/app/templates/content/estimation/about-estimators/idea.html +++ b/inst/app/templates/content/estimation/about-estimators/idea.html @@ -1 +1,4 @@ -This is a short description of the IDEA method. +The Incidence Decay and Exponential Adjustment (ID) estimator is an alternative formulation of the Incidence Decay (ID) model which includes a decay factor to reflect the often observed outbreak decline. +This addresses the potential underestimation of the $R_0$ estimate when using the ID method. +The method of least squares is used to estimate $R_0$, and similar to the ID model, the serial interval is assumed to be known and this method is developed assuming the SIR model. +We note that, since we need to obtain a minimizer of the decay factor to solve the optimization problem, we require that the number of cases in the dataset be at least 2. |