Class constructor for reporting_triangle objects — new_reporting

Class constructor for reporting_triangle objects

Usage

new_reporting_triangle(
  reporting_triangle_matrix,
  reference_dates,
  structure,
  max_delay,
  delays_unit,
  strata = NULL
)

reporting_triangle_matrix: Matrix of reporting triangle
reference_dates: Vector of character strings indicating the reference dates corresponding to each row of the reporting triangle matrix (data).
structure: Integer or vector specifying the reporting structure. If integer, divides columns evenly by that integer (with last possibly truncated). If vector, the sum must not be greater than or equal to the number of columns. Default is 1 (standard triangular structure).
max_delay: Integer indicating the maximum delay.
delays_unit: Character string specifying the temporal granularity of the delays. Options are "days", "weeks", "months", "years". For the matrix method, this is simply passed as an item in the reporting_triangle object which will later be used to create a nowcast data.frame. For the data.frame method, this is used to compute the delay in terms of the specified unit, and to expand the combinations of reference dates and delays to the complete set of combinations in the reporting triangle. Default is "days".
strata: Character string indicating the strata. Default is NULL.

An object of class reporting_triangle