compare_IFR: Compile age-adjusted IFR estimates from different countries...

In epicentre-msf/covidestim: Estimates Of Epidemiological Parameters For COVID19

Description

Compile age-adjusted IFR estimates from different countries based on ensemble estimates by O'Driscoll et al. 2020 and Levin et al. 2020. The population age distributions are either taken from the UN World Population Prospects 2019 (WPP2019). Estimates by Levin et al. 2020 are only included if p_sex= "total".

Usage

compare_IFR(countries = c("AFG", "PAK", "IRN"), p_sex = c("total",
  "male", "female"))

Arguments

countries	A vector of ISO3 country codes used to extract age-specific population estimates from the UN World Population Prospects 2019 dataset.
p_sex	Use severity estimate for which sex (either "female", "male", or "total"). Defaults to "total".

Value

A data.frame with IFR estimates (mean and 95 and methods. Estimates by Levin et al. 2020 and Brazeau et al. 2020 are only included if p_sex = "total".

Author(s)

Flavio Finger <[e-mail]>

Examples

compare_IFR(countries = c("AFG", "PAK", "IRN"))

epicentre-msf/covidestim documentation built on Jan. 1, 2021, 1:06 a.m.