Reporting Triangle Object

A reporting_triangle object contains the data and metadata needed for nowcasting.

Structure

A reporting_triangle is a list with the following components:

reporting_triangle_matrix: Matrix with which rows are reference times and columns are delays and entries are incident cases at each reference time and delay.
reference_dates: Vector of the same length as the rows of the matrix indicating the ates corresponding to the reference times in the rows of the reporting triangle.
structure: Vector indicating the "structure" of the reporting triangle, see construct_triangle for more details.
max_delay: Integer indicating the maximum delay.
delays_unit: Character string indicating the unit of the delays. Valid options are "days", "weeks", "months", "years".
strata: Character string indicating the strata

See the corresponding as_reporting_triangle.matrix and as_reporting_triangle.data.frame functions for more details on the required input formats to generate the object.