Mean method for <epiparameter> class — mean.epiparameter • epiparameter

Mean method for <epiparameter> class

Usage

# S3 method for class 'epiparameter'
mean(x, ...)

Arguments

x: An <epiparameter> object.
...: dots Not used, extra arguments supplied will cause a warning.

Value

A numeric mean of a distribution or NA.

Examples

ep <- epiparameter_db(
  disease = "COVID-19",
  epi_name = "incubation period",
  single_epiparameter = TRUE
)
#> Using Linton N, Kobayashi T, Yang Y, Hayashi K, Akhmetzhanov A, Jung S, Yuan
#> B, Kinoshita R, Nishiura H (2020). “Incubation Period and Other
#> Epidemiological Characteristics of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infections
#> with Right Truncation: A Statistical Analysis of Publicly Available
#> Case Data.” _Journal of Clinical Medicine_. doi:10.3390/jcm9020538
#> <https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9020538>.. 
#> To retrieve the citation use the 'get_citation' function
mean(ep)
#> [1] 5.6