user estimates for generation time and incubation period

[timktsang]

Thanks a lot for creating this amazing package. Say I have a set of data to estimate of incubation period and generation time and I wanted to use them as input.

I would like to confirm, can I use the estimate_delay function to fit the dataset and used as an input in epinow function? It seems estimate_delay() results in a lognormal distribution, while as I read the get_generation_time(disease = "SARS-CoV-2", source = "ganyani"), it seems it is not a lognormal. Thank you.

Update: I just found out the generation time must be a gamma distribution, and seems using estimate_delay, resulting in logmean and logsd may not be appropriate.