From 84ff91b25a18ea43474fca6b1f7587e8bee97b66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Funk Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:43:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add news item --- NEWS.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 5dc3706a0..eb0288f0c 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ ## 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