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diff --git a/inst/web/templates/content/estimation/about-estimators/idea.html b/inst/web/templates/content/estimation/about-estimators/idea.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..67548f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/inst/web/templates/content/estimation/about-estimators/idea.html @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +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 <em>R</em><sub>0</sub> estimate when using the ID method. +The method of least squares is used to estimate <em>R</em><sub>0</sub>, 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. |