Fit recent hospital admission and wastewater trends using BRMS

Usage

fit_recent_trends(
  forecast_date,
  location,
  scenario,
  raw_output_dir,
  hosp_prior_params,
  ww_prior_params,
  hosp_lookback_days,
  ww_lookback_days,
  seed,
  control,
  ...
)

Arguments

forecast_date: forecast_date for which to fits recent data trends. Data for an actual forecast must already have been produced and exist in raw_output_dir.
location: Location for which to fit trends.
scenario: Wastewater data availability scenario to analyze.
raw_output_dir: Directory containing raw output .rds files. Used to obtain the admissions and wastewater data used in fitting the forecasting model.
hosp_prior_params: Named list of values for prior hyperparameters needed by fit_hosp_trend().
ww_prior_params: Named list of values for prior hyperparameters needed by fit_ww_trend().
hosp_lookback_days: Number of days to look back when fitting the trend in hospital admissions.
ww_lookback_days: Number of days to look back when fitting the trend in wastewater concentrations.
seed: Seed for Stan's pseudorandom number generator.
control: list of control parameters passed to stan via brms::brm(). Default NULL.
...: Additional keyword arguments passed to brms::brm() via fit_hosp_trend().

Value

The two fit objects, as a list, saving raw fits to disk as a side effect.