Carl A. B. Pearson

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I vote for: - the full analysis in Hellewell et al in `inst/` - a subset of Hellewell et al in a vignette, which - shows a more limited example...

Revisiting the methods in paper: ``` We initialised the branching process with five, 20, or 40 cases to represent a newly detected outbreak of varying size. Initial symptomatic cases were...

Sure; i mean that giving them all the same isolation time could represent that they had some known exposing incident (which definitionally as you point out, they do not). As...

For error checking: if the plan is to go to mini argument collections, ala community_opts, isolated_opts, etc - probably do that first? Those will have their own error checking constructors,...

agree - not like there's a performance reason, since it's all computed at daily already and the memory allocation already gets paid.

should be possible to create a specific test input (i.e. a set of simulation "output results") here by hand that meets the output form, without having to try seeds until...

Is the right way to solve this something more like recording infected / infectious prevalence, not just new incidence?

just recording it; that said, your point about adding an `extinct?` column would also do the trick.

I'm generally skeptical of pulling in more dependencies, but I do think it's useful to provide users a standard-ish way to have this sort of capability. Could be done with...