ATQ: Alert Time Quality - Evaluating Timely Epidemic Metrics

Provides tools for evaluating timely epidemic detection models within school absenteeism-based surveillance systems. Introduces the concept of alert time quality as an evaluation metric. Includes functions to simulate populations, epidemics, and alert metrics associated with epidemic spread using population census data. The methods are based on research published in Vanderkruk et al. (2023) <doi:10.1186/s12889-023-15747-z> and Ward et al. (2019) <doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7521-7>.

Package details

AuthorVinay Joshy [aut, cre, cph], Zeny Feng [aut, cph, ths], Lorna Deeth [aut, cph, ths], Justin Slater [aut, cph, ths], Kayla Vanderkruk [aut, com, ctb]
MaintainerVinay Joshy <joshy@uoguelph.ca>
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
Version0.2.3
URL https://github.com/vjoshy/ATQ_Surveillance_Package
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Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("ATQ")

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ATQ documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 8:12 p.m.