Averages the time-level reproductive numbers within a certain range to estimate the overall reproductive number for an oubreak.
estimateRtAvg(rtData, rangeForAvg = NULL)The name of the dateset with time-level reproductive numbers.
A vector with the start and ending time period to be used to calculate the average effective reproductive number.
A data frame with the average effective reproductive. Column names:
RtAvg - the average time-level reproductive number between the range
specified in rangeForAvg.
This function is meant to be called by estimateR
which estimates the individual-level and time-level, and average reproductive numbers,
but it can also be run directly.