rtestim

MaRDI QIDQ7380024CRANFDO

Authors Daniel J. McDonald, Jiaping Liu

Last update 11 March 2026

Copyright license MIT license, File License

Software version identifier PACKAGES.rds, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2

Description

Use trend filtering, a type of regularized nonparametric regression, to estimate the instantaneous reproduction number, also called Rt. This value roughly says how many new infections will result from each new infection today. Values larger than 1 indicate that an epidemic is growing while those less than 1 indicate decline. For more details about this methodology, see Liu, Cai, Gustafson, and McDonald (2024) <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012324>.

Cites work

• rtestim: Time-varying reproduction number estimation with trend filtering

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