get_incidence: Calculate incidence from flusurvey data

In sbfnk/flusurvey: Packages for analysing flusurvey data

Calculate incidence from flusurvey data

Description

This calculates incidence according to a given column in the supplied data.

Usage

get_incidence(
  data,
  incidence.columns = "ili",
  aggregation = c("week", "day", "month", "year"),
  denominator = c("active.members", "reports"),
  min.N = 1,
  by = NULL
)

Arguments

data	a data table, usually generated by merge_data
incidence.columns	one or more columns which specificy incidence; default: "ili"
aggregation	the timescale of aggregation, by default "week"
denominator	what to use as denominator, active members or all reports in a week
min.N	the minimum denominator, by default 1
by	one or more variables by which to group

Value

a data.table with the incidence

Author(s)

seb

sbfnk/flusurvey documentation built on May 19, 2023, 10:44 p.m.