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 ## Model changes
 
 * Updated the parameterisation of the dispersion term `phi` to be `phi = 1 / sqrt_phi ^ 2` rather than the previous parameterisation `phi = 1 / sqrt(sqrt_phi)` based on the suggested prior [here](https://github.com/stan-dev/stan/wiki/Prior-Choice-Recommendations#story-when-the-generic-prior-fails-the-case-of-the-negative-binomial) and the performance benefits seen in the `epinowcast` package (see [here](https://github.com/epinowcast/epinowcast/blob/8eff560d1fd8305f5fb26c21324b2bfca1f002b4/inst/stan/epinowcast.stan#L314)). By @seabbs in # and reviewed by @sbfnk.
+* Updated delay discretisation to be based on a two-day censoring window (with uniform probability in between). By @sbfnk in #518.
 
 # EpiNow2 1.4.0