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It is important to understand the severity of a disease in terms of the case fatality rate in order to respond appropriately to an outbreak.
During an outbreak there is often a delay between cases being reported, and the outcomes of those cases being known.

Knowing the distribution of these delays from previous outbreaks of the same (or similar) diseases, and accounting for them, can be useful in getting better estimates of disease severity.

The severity of a disease can be estimated while correcting for delays in reporting using methods outlines in @nishiura2009, and which are implemented in the _cfr_ package.

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```{r}
data("ebola1976")
# view ebola dataset
head(ebola1976)
```

## Obtaining data on reporting delays
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The `estimate_static()` function is well suited to small outbreaks. For larger outbreaks where it may be useful to know how severity has changed over time, the function `estimate_time_varying()` is available. This function is however not well suited to small outbreaks. More on this can be found on the [vignette on estimating how disease severity varies over the course of an outbreak](estimate_time_varying_severity.html).

## Estimate reporting rate
## Estimate ascertainment rate

It is important to know what proportion of cases in an outbreak are being ascertained to muster the appropriate response, and to estimate the overall burden of the outbreak.

It is important to know what proportion of cases in an outbreak are being reported to muster the appropriate response, and to estimate the overall burden of the outbreak.
**Note** that the ascertainment rate may be affected by a number of factors.
When the main factor in low ascertainment is the lack of (access to) testing capacity, we refer to this as reporting or under-reporting.

The `estimate_reporting()` function can help estimate this using the daily case and death data, the known severity of the disease from previous outbreaks, as well as a delay distribution of onset-to-death.

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