Session timetable
EMBL-EBI Course: Rt estimation and nowcasting
Tuesday - Half day (09.15-12.30)
Course introduction and overview
Tuesday: 09.15-09.30
- Course overview and motivation: from line list to decisions (15 mins)
Session 1: \(R_t\) estimation and the renewal equation
Tuesday: 09.30-10.30
- Introduction: the time-varying reproduction number (10 mins)
- Practice: using the renewal equation to estimate R (45 mins)
- Wrap up (5 mins)
Break: 10.30-11.00
Session 2: Nowcasting concepts
Tuesday: 11.00-11.30
- Introduction: nowcasting as a right-truncation problem (10 mins)
- Practice: simulating and basic nowcasting (20 mins)
Session 3: Nowcasting with an unknown reporting delay
Tuesday: 11.30-12.30
- Introduction: joint estimation of delays and nowcasts (10 mins)
- Practice: joint estimation of delays and nowcasts (40 mins)
- Wrap up: consolidating key concepts (10 mins)