Checks that the infection history matrix is allowable given the birth dates and sampling times of the data

check_inf_hist(titre_dat, strain_isolation_times, inf_hist)

Arguments

titre_dat

the data frame of titre data

strain_isolation_times

the circulation times of possible infecting strains eg. 1968:2015

inf_hist

the infection history matrix, with nrows = number indivs and ncols = length(strain_isolation_times)

Value

a single boolean value, FALSE if the check passes, otherwise throws an error