Tutorials

This section contains tutorials that demonstrate how to use the pyrenew package. The source code for the tutorials can be found in the project repository: CDCgov/PyRenew.

• Getting started with pyrenew
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing pyrenew
  • The fundamentals
• Fitting a basic renewal model
  • Architecture of RtInfectionsRenewalModel
• Fitting a hospital admissions-only model
  • Model definition
  • Data processing
  • Building the model
  • Fitting the model
  • Results exploration and MCMC diagnostics
  • Predictive checks and forecasting
• Extending pyrenew
  • The expected outcome
  • Pyrenew’s random variable class
• Periodic effects and broadcasting
  • Repeated units
  • Repeated sequences (tiling)
• Implementing a Day of the Week Effect
  • Recap: Hospital Admissions Model
  • Round 2: Incorporating day-of-the-week effects