ageStand-package: Age standardisation of malaria prevalence

In SEEG-Oxford/ageStand: Age standardisation of malaria prevalence

Description

Functions to convert malaria parasite rate estimates between age ranges. At present this package has only one function convertPrevalence which uses the modified Pull and Grab model introduced in Smith et al. (2007) to convert prevalence estimates for Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax.

Details

Package:	ageStand
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0
Date:	2014-06-10
License:	GPL (>=2)

See the helpfile for convertPrevalence for details of how to use the currently implemented models

Author(s)

David L. Smith (derived and parameterised the models and wrote the original code)
Nick Golding (restructured the code and wrote the R package)

Maintainer: Nick Golding <[e-mail]>

References

Smith, D. L. et al. Standardizing estimates of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate. Malar. J. 6, 131 (2007).

See Also

convertPrevalence

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