epidesc: Calculation of Epidemiological Descriptors

Provides tools to easily compute a series of epidemiological indicators to characterise different transmission profiles of infectious diseases with a simple pipeline: format the dates in epiyearweek format, choose the descriptors and their parameters, and compute them. The package is based on the publication 'How heterogeneous is the dengue transmission profile in Brazil? A study in six Brazilian states' <doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010746>.

Package details

AuthorRaquel Martins Lana [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7573-1364>), Carles Milà [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0470-0760>), Iasmin Ferreira de Almeida [aut], Claudia Torres Codeço [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1174-178X>), Daniela Lührsen [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6340-5964>), Diego Ricardo Xavier Silva [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-7732>), Christovam Barcellos [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1161-2753>), Raphael Saldanha [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0652-8466>), Rachel Lowe [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3939-7343>)
MaintainerCarles Milà <carles.milagarcia@bsc.es>
LicenseGPL (>= 2)
Version0.1.0
URL https://github.com/BSC-ES/epidesc
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("epidesc")

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epidesc documentation built on Aug. 8, 2026, 1:06 a.m.