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Description

Simulates an epidemic outbreak with a branching process from a number of initial seed cases. Every simulated case has disease and intervention parameters stochastically drawn from user-provided distributions. These parameters determine which secondary cases occur, which in turn create the next generation of cases. This simulation implements modelling of interventions such as manual/conventional contact tracing, app-based contact tracing, quarantine, self-isolation, and reduction of contacts through physical distancing. This simulation also includes the option of adding new cases via importation, which may have different intervention policies. The simulation itself outputs a dataframe that summarizes every case generated during the course of the simulation. This can be used to generate metrics or other statistics across a large number of runs. Some example driver functions to do this are provided.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Henry Ngo [e-mail]

Authors:

• Rebeca Cardim Falcão

• Michael Otterstatter

Other contributors:

• Michael Irvine [contributor]

• Ioana Sevcenco [contributor]

• Caroline Colijn [contributor]

• Daniel Coombs [contributor]

• Province of British Columbia [copyright holder]

bcgov/epi.branch.sim documentation built on Dec. 16, 2020, 5:49 a.m.