calculate_cases: Calculate the number of per capita dengue cases.

Description Usage Arguments Value

View source: R/calculating_burden.R

Description

calculate_cases calculates the number of per capita annual dengue symptomatic infections (cases) in a human population, given a force of infection.

Usage

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calculate_cases(FOI, n_j, u_lim, l_lim, weights_vec)

Arguments

FOI

The force of infection value. Numeric.

n_j

A numeric vector of the proportion of individuals in each age group in the human population.

u_lim

A numeric vector of the upper age limits of the population age groups.

l_lim

A numeric vector of the lower age limits of the population age groups.

weights_vec

A numeric vector of length = 4 of the proportions of primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary infections which are symptomatic.

Value

Numeric.


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