man/WP_unknown.Rd


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% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
% Please edit documentation in R/WP_unknown.R
\name{WP_unknown}
\alias{WP_unknown}
\title{WP method background function WP_unknown}
\usage{
WP_unknown(NT, B = 100, shape.max = 10, scale.max = 10, tol = 0.999)
}
\arguments{
\item{NT}{Vector of case counts.}

\item{B}{Length of grid for shape and scale (grid search parameter).}

\item{shape.max}{Maximum shape value (grid \code{search} parameter).}

\item{scale.max}{Maximum scale value (grid \code{search} parameter).}

\item{tol}{cutoff value for cumulative distribution function of the serial distribution (defaults to 0.999).}
}
\value{
The function returns \code{Rhat}, the maximum likelihood estimator of R0, as well as the maximum
        likelihood estimator of the discretized serial distribution given by \code{p} (the probability mass
        function) and \code{range.max} (the distribution has support on the integers one to \code{range.max}).
        The function also returns \code{resLL} (all values of the log-likelihood) at \code{shape} (grid for
        shape parameter) and at \code{scale} (grid for scale parameter), as well as \code{resR0} (the full
        vector of maximum likelihood estimators), \code{JJ} (the locations for the likelihood for these), and
        \code{J0} (the location for the maximum likelihood estimator \code{Rhat}). If \code{JJ} and \code{J0}
        are not the same, this means that the maximum likelihood estimator is not unique.
}
\description{
This is a background/internal function called by \code{WP}. It computes the maximum likelihood estimator
of R0 assuming that the serial distribution is unknown but comes from a discretized gamma distribution.
The function then implements a simple grid search algorithm to obtain the maximum likelihood estimator
of R0 as well as the gamma parameters.
}