sparsesurv: Forecasting and Early Outbreak Detection for Sparse Count Data

Functions for fitting, forecasting, and early detection of outbreaks in sparse surveillance count time series. Supports negative binomial (NB), self-exciting NB, generalise autoregressive moving average (GARMA) NB , zero-inflated NB (ZINB), self-exciting ZINB, generalise autoregressive moving average ZINB, and hurdle formulations. Climatic and environmental covariates can be included in the regression component and/or the zero-modified components. Includes outbreak-detection algorithms for NB, ZINB, and hurdle models, with utilities for prediction and diagnostics.

Package details

AuthorAlexandros Angelakis [aut, cre], Bryan Nyawanda [aut], Penelope Vounatsou [aut]
MaintainerAlexandros Angelakis <alexandros.angelakis@swisstph.ch>
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
Version0.1.1
URL https://github.com/alexangelakis-ang/sparsesurv
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("sparsesurv")

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