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Remove references to "confirmed" cases

Open sbfnk opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

At the moment the main functions in the package expect a data frame with columns date and confirm. Also much of the reporting refers to "confirmed cases". However, the package functionality could be applied to any data streams (e.g. suspect/probable cases, hospitalisations etc.), where "confirmed" cases often refer to a particular subclass that were e.g. lab-tested.

I'd suggest to remove the language around "confirmed" cases and perhaps just to refer to "cases", which leaves the case definition open. Alternatively/additionally we could make it a user argument (perhaps as part of #346) so that plot labels, summaries etc. could reflect whatever the model is being fitted to. The input data frame could then also be expected to have a column of more neutral name (e.g. value) instead of confirm.

sbfnk avatar Nov 13 '23 09:11 sbfnk

Agree that we could move to a neutral default value and agree we should ideally allow the user to specify this with something else when inputting data. Also agree we should then keep track of this and use where it is needed.

seabbs avatar Nov 13 '23 14:11 seabbs

Pushing this to a later version to be addressed alongside #346

sbfnk avatar May 01 '24 10:05 sbfnk