GAIL-package: Geo-Assignment of Irregular Locations

In jelsema/GAIL: Geo-Assigment of Irregular Locations

Description

A package for handling allocating a set of irregular spatial units (e.g. P.O. Box ZIP codes) onto a regular set of spatial units (e.g. Standard ZIP codes, Census Tract, County, etc).

Details

The motivating use-case for this package wasto allocate cases of some disease (e.g., influenza) from PO Box ZIP codes to nearby Standard ZIP codes. Often data from PO Box ZIP codes are discarded, or all of the data are aggregated to a larger spatial unit such as county. To preserve the cases associated with PO Box ZIP codes at the more fine spatial resolution (Standard ZIP code), we stochastically allocate cases from PO Box ZIP codes to

Author(s)

Maintainer: Casey M. Jelsema [e-mail]

Authors:

• Hendricks. Brian

• Dick. Taron

See Also

Useful links:

• Report bugs at https://github.com/jelsema/GAIL/issues

jelsema/GAIL documentation built on June 29, 2019, 11:48 a.m.