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Getting started with epidemic scenario modelling components19 days ago
Prepare population and initial conditions | Note on social contacts data | Run epidemic model | Prepare data and visualise infections | References
Getting started with modelling interventions targeting social contacts19 days ago
Prepare population and initial conditions | Note on social contacts data | Prepare an intervention | Run epidemic model | Prepare data and visualise infections | References
Modelling a diphtheria outbreak in a humanitarian camp setting19 days ago
Modelling an outbreak with pre-existing immunity | Modelling an outbreak with changing population sizes | References
Modelling in multiple populations19 days ago
Combining two populations | Note on connectivity matrix | Combining two populations using a gravity model | Note on gravity connectivity matrix | Combining n populations using a gravity model
Modelling intervention scenarios19 days ago
Which model components can be passed as lists | Setting up the epidemic context | Creating a list of intervention sets | Output type for list intervention inputs | Combinations of intervention and vaccination scenarios | Modelling epidemic response scenarios with parameter uncertainty | Output type for intervention and parameter set combinations | Comparing response scenarios with parameter uncertainty | Counter-intuitive effects of time-limited interventions | References
Modelling interventions that change infection parameters19 days ago
Prepare population and initial conditions | Modelling an intervention on the transmission rate
Modelling leaky vaccination and hospitalisation outcomes with Vacamole19 days ago
Modifications for epidemics | Prepare population and initial conditions | Prepare a two dose vaccination campaign | Model epidemic using Vacamole | Visualise model outcomes | Vacamole ODE system for | References
Modelling overlapping and sequential interventions targeting social contacts19 days ago
Prepare population and initial conditions | Examine the baseline | Modelling overlapping interventions | School closures | Workplace closures | Combining interventions | Re-applying workplace closures
Modelling parameter uncertainty19 days ago
Obtaining estimates of disease transmission rate | Passing a vector of transmission rates | Output type for vector parameter inputs | Passing parameter sets | Passing vectors of epidemic duration | References
Modelling responses to a stochastic Ebola virus epidemic19 days ago
Prepare population and initial conditions | Prepare model parameters | Run epidemic model | Prepare data and visualise infections | Applying interventions that reduce transmission | Modelling the roll-out of vaccination | Modelling a multi-pronged ebola response | Details: Discrete-time Ebola virus disease model | Hospitalisation, funerals, and removal | References
Modelling the effect of a vaccination campaign19 days ago
Prepare population and initial conditions | Prepare a vaccination campaign
Modelling time-dependence and seasonality in transmission dynamics19 days ago
Setup and initial conditions | Defining a time-dependent function | Model with time-dependent transmission | Non-pharmaceutical interventions and time-dependence | Timing vaccination to prevent epidemic peaks
Reducing parameters required for final size estimation19 days ago
Different use cases of finalsize and epidemics | Converting scenarios between finalsize and epidemics | Prepare population and model parameters | Implementing vaccination in epidemics | Calculating individuals vaccinated in epidemic model | Implementing vaccination in finalsize | Consideration of computational speed | References
Age-stratified hospitalisation and death risks2 months ago
Population-wide risks
Age-structured population2 months ago
Uniform population age | Structured population age
Query parameters2 months ago
Introduction | RDBMS query parameters | Examples | DHIS2 query parameters | SORMAS query parameters
readepi: Reading data from health information systems2 months ago
Overview | Need for MS drivers | Authentication | Reading data from RDBMS | Reading data from HIS | Importing data from DHIS2 | Importing data from SORMAS
Package design vignette for {readepi}2 months ago
Concept and motivation | Scope | Output | Design decisions | Authentication | Data import | Dependencies | Contribute
Time-varying case fatality risk5 months ago
Constant case fatality risk | Higher risk of case fatality | Continuous time-varying case fatality risk | Stepwise time-varying case fatality risk
Wrangling simulated outbreak data5 months ago
Simulate an outbreak | Censoring dates | Under-reporting of cases and contacts | Tidyverse | Base R | Removing a line list column
Visualising simulated data5 months ago
Visualising incidence of onset, hospitalisation and death | Reshape line list data | Base R | Tidyverse | Visualising individual line list events through time | Demographic data | Visualising contact data | Subset contact network to transmission network | Visualising other line list information
Reporting delays and right-truncation of line list data5 months ago
Reporting delays | Truncation | Truncate to emulate different stages of outbreak
Installing drivers5 months ago
MS SQL drivers for OSX-based systems | MS SQL drivers for Linux-based systems
Getting Started with {simulist}7 months ago
Controlling outbreak size | Case type | Anonymous line list | Population age | Age-stratified hospitalisation and death risks | Simulate contacts table | Simulate both line list and contacts table | Using functions for distributions instead of <epiparameter> | Predefined functions | Anonymous functions | Simulating without hospitalisations and/or deaths
Theoretical background for epichains10 months ago
Branching processes | Simulation | Summary statistics | Inference | Size and length distributions for some offspring distributions | Negative binomial and special cases | Size distributions | Length distributions | Gamma-Borel mixture | Numerical approximations of chain size and length distributions | References
Design principles for epidemics11 months ago
Scope | Output | Package architecture | Design decisions | Epidemic modelling | ODE systems and models | Stochastic models | Classes | Function vectorisation | Miscellaneous decisions | Dependencies | Contribute
Guide to developing epidemics features11 months ago
Scope | A guide to package structure | Adding or removing model parameters | Modifying compartmental flows without changing compartments | Modelling births, immigration, and background mortality | Modelling sources of infectious individuals such as from zoonotic spillover_rate | Modelling waning immunity | Modifying which parameters can be time dependent | Group-specific infection parameters | Adding epidemiological compartments | Changing vaccination rates over time
Estimate individual-level transmission11 months ago
Transmission data | Superspreading using alternative distributions | References
Introduction to cleanepi11 months ago
An overview | General data cleaning tasks | Using {cleanepi} functionalities with pipe operators | Printing the report | Specific data cleaning tasks | Remove constant data | Cleaning column names | Replacing missing entries with NA | Standardizing Dates | Standardizing subject IDs | Detecting incorrect, duplicated, and missing subject IDs | Correct wrong subject ids | Checking date sequence | Converting character columns into numeric | Converting numeric values into date | Finding duplicated rows | Removing duplicates | Dictionary based data substituting | Correct misspelled values | Calculating time span in different time scales (“years”, “months”, “weeks”, or “days”)
Epidemic Risk11 months ago
plot probability of epidemic across dispersion | plot probability of epidemic across introductions | plot probability of extinction across R for multiple k | Controls on transmission | plot probability of epidemic across introductions for multiple k
Design Principles for {superspreading}11 months ago
Scope | Output | Design decisions | Dependencies | Contribute
Getting started with {superspreading}11 months ago
Definition | Probability of epidemic | Empirical superspreading | References
Outbreaks in heterogeneous networks11 months ago
Pathogen evolution in the emergence of infectious disease outbreaks11 months ago
Methods for calculating the proportion of transmission12 months ago
Definitions | Exploring each method
Package Design vignette for {cleanepi}12 months ago
Concept and motivation | Design decisions | Scope | Input | Output | Modules in | 1. Standardization of column names | 2. Removal of empty rows and columns and constant columns | 3. Detection and removal of duplicates | 4. Replacement of missing values with NA | 5. Standardization of date values | 6. Standardization of subject IDs | 7. Dictionary based substitution | 8. Conversion of values when necessary | 9. Verification of the sequence of date-events | 10. Transformation of selected columns | Surrogate functions | Related packages | Dependencies | Contribute
sivirep1 years ago
Descripción | Exclusión de responsabilidad | Motivación | Potenciales usuarios | Versiones futuras | Contribuciones | Código de conducta | Instalación | Inicio rápido | Reporte automatizado | Análisis personalizados
Software permissions and regulations1 years ago
Scope of regulations | Data privacy and integrity | Internet access | Registration and third parties | Updates
Design Principles for {simulist}1 years ago
Scope | Output | Package architecture | Design decisions | Dependencies | Contribute
An introduction to linelist1 years ago
Motivations | linelist in a nutshell | Outline | Should I use linelist? | Getting started | Installation | Key functionalities | Tagging system | Validation | Secured methods | Worked example | Example dataset | Creating a linelist object | Changing tags | Accessing tagged variables | Using safeguards | Changing tag loss action permanently
Compatibility with dplyr1 years ago
Verbs operating on rows | dplyr::arrange() ✅ | dplyr:distinct() ✅ | dplyr::filter() ✅ | dplyr::slice() ✅ | Verbs operating on columns | dplyr::mutate() ✓ (partial) | dplyr::pull() ✅ | dplyr::relocate() ✅ | dplyr::rename() & dplyr::rename_with() ✅ | dplyr::select() ✅ | Verbs operating on groups ✘ | Verbs operating on data.frames | dplyr::bind_rows() ✅ | dplyr::bind_cols() ✘ | Joins ✘ | Verbs operating on multiple columns | dplyr::pick() ✘
Estimating fatality risk from individual level data1 years ago
Use case | What we have | Estimation based on cases with known outcomes | Mathematical explanation for bias | Estimation based on expected number of known death outcomes | Simulated comparison of above methods | Deaths reported but not recoveries | Only total deaths reported | Only total cases and deaths reported
Ready reckoner for Reff1 years ago
Setup | Scenarios of contact reduction
Design Principles for {ColOpenData}1 years ago
Scope | Output | Design Decisions | Dependencies | Additional Considerations
A Deep Dive into Colombian Demographics Using ColOpenData1 years ago
Initial Exploration: Basic Data Handling with ColOpenData | Documentation access | Data load | Data filter and plot
Documentation and Dictionaries1 years ago
Naming and structure | Understanding Demographic Datasets | Understanding Geospatial Datasets | Understanding Climate Dataset | Understanding Population Projections | List Data | List Data Using Keywords | Geospatial dictionaries | Climate tags | DIVIPOLA
How to download climate data using ColOpenData1 years ago
Retrieving climate data for a ROI using stations' data | Other methods | Disclaimer
Maps and plots with ColOpenData1 years ago
Downloading geospatial data | Static plots (ggplot2) | Dynamic plots (leaflet)
Calculating the final size of an epidemic1 years ago
Use case | What we have | What we assume | Defining a value for $R_0$ | Getting population estimates | Modelling population susceptibility | Running final_size | A short-cut for homogeneous populations | References
Data Collation and Synthesis Protocol1 years ago
About the package | Objective of | Contributing to the package | Scope of package | Guide to identifying distributions in the literature | Guide to data refinement once sources identified | Guide to extracting parameters | Data quality assessment in | Guide to the {epiparameter} review process | Updating parameters in the database | Database of excluded papers | References
A primer on working with delay distributions2 years ago
A brief primer on distributions in R | Using delay distribution densities in cfr | Preparing delay distribution density for cfr | Passing delay distribution density to cfr functions | Using other distribution representations | Using distributional | Using distcrete | Using continuous and discrete distributions | Links to epiparameter | References
Introduction to cohort design with vaccineff2 years ago
Cohort Design | Estimating VE without iterative matching process | Estimating VE with iterative matching process | References
vaccineff2 years ago
Usage | Who are the users / potential users? | What is vaccine effectiveness? | For which designs is this package? | Cohort Design | What type of data is needed to use the package? | Data for Cohort design | Modeling vaccine effectiveness | VE for Cohort design | Key references
Design Principles for {epiparameter}2 years ago
Scope | Output | Package architecture | Design decisions | Dependencies | Contribute
Integration of Geospatial and Demographic data2 years ago
How to merge geospatial and demographic data | Documentation access
Population Projections with ColOpenData2 years ago
Current database2 years ago
Design Principles for {epiparameterDB}2 years ago
Scope | Input/Output/Interoperability | Design decisions | Dependencies | Development journey
Design Principles for {epichains}2 years ago
Scope | Design decisions | Simulation functions | likelihood estimation | Naming and documentation style | Dependencies | Development journey
Modelling disease control interventions2 years ago
Reducing the strength of transmission | Population-wide control | Individual-level control. | Preventing superspreading events | Truncating the generation interval | References
Projecting infectious disease incidence: a COVID-19 example2 years ago
Overview | Data | Setting up the inputs | Onset times | Generation time | Offspring distribution | Simulation controls | Modelling assumptions | Running the simulations | Post-processing | Visualization | References
Other study designs2 years ago
Test Negative Design (Future release) | Screening Method (Future release) | What type of data is needed? | Data for Test-negative design | Data for Screening method design
Current database2 years ago
Getting Started with {epiparameter}2 years ago
Use case | Library of epidemiological parameters | Single set of epidemiological parameters | Benefit of <epiparameter> | Subsetting database | Distribution functions | Plotting epidemiological distributions | Accessors | Parameter conversion and extraction | Conversion | Extraction | Adding library entries and contributing to
Parameter extraction and conversion in {epiparameter}2 years ago
Conversion versus extraction | Conversions | Conversion functions | Gamma distribution | Using a character string to name distribution | Using an <epiparameter> | Lognormal distribution | Weibull distribution | Negative binomial distribution | Geometric distribution | Extraction | Use cases | Assuming distributions | References
Building an Endemic Channel with epiCo2 years ago
1. What is an endemic channel? | The central tendency measure (CTM) | The upper and lower limits | 2. Historical data needed to build an endemic channel | Historic incidence from the line list or SIVIGILA data | Setting up the data from incidence information | 3. Using epiCo's endemic_channel function | Example | 4. Interpretation and communication of results
Analyzing demographic data with epiCo2 years ago
1. Navigating the Codification of the Political Administrative Division of Colombia (DIVIPOLA) | 2. Population pyramids | 3. Demographic variables | 4. Epidemiological data | 5. Estimation of incidence rates | 6. Estimation of risk by age group
Spatiotemporal analyses with epiCo2 years ago
1. Real travel times among Colombian municipalities | 2. Defining a neighborhood with epiCo | 3. epiCo's morans_index function | 4. Interpretation and communication of epiCo's morans_index results
Calculating a static, delay-adjusted estimate of disease severity2 years ago
Use case | What we have | Severity of the 1976 Ebola Outbreak | Onset-to-death delay distribution | Intermediate step: Estimating cases with known outcomes | Estimating the naive and corrected CFR | Severity estimation methods | Severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.K. | Onset-to-death distribution for Covid-19 | Details: Adjusting for delays between two time series | References
Estimating disease severity while correcting for reporting delays2 years ago
Use case | What we have | What we assume | Case and death data | Obtaining data on reporting delays | Estimate disease severity | Estimate ascertainment ratio | Concept: How reporting delays bias CFR estimates | References
Estimating how disease severity varies over the course of an outbreak2 years ago
Use case | What we have | Potential reasons for changing disease severity | Changing severity of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.K. | Preparing the raw data | Onset-to-death distribution for Covid-19 | Estimating the naive and corrected CFR | Severity of Covid-19 in multiple countries | Details: Adjusting for delays between two time series | References
Estimating the proportion of cases that are ascertained during an outbreak2 years ago
Use case | What we have | Ascertainment for the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.K. | Estimating the proportion of cases that have been ascertained | Ascertainment in countries with large early Covid-19 pandemics | References
Handling data from {incidence2}2 years ago
Design Principles for linelist2 years ago
Scope | Input/Output/Interoperability | Design decisions | Dependencies
Literature on branching process applications2 years ago
Bibliography
Modelling uncertainty in R₀2 years ago
Use case | What we have | What we assume | Getting $R_0$, contact and demography data, and susceptibility | Running final_size over $R_0$ samples | Iterate final_size() | With base R | With | Visualise uncertainty in final size
Projecting re-emergence risk after waning or new births2 years ago
Use case | What we have | What we assume | Modelling the initial epidemic | Modelling waning immunity and influx of susceptibles | Projected estimates of effective $R$ | References
Getting started with epichains2 years ago
Transmission chains likelihoods | Use case | What we have | What we assume | likelihood() | Joint and individual log-likelihoods | Observation probability | How likelihood() works | Transmission chain simulation | simulate_chains() | simulate_chain_stats() | S3 Methods | Summarising | Aggregating | Plotting | Some notes about interoperability between and objects | References
Guidelines for Visualisations2 years ago
Colours | Sizes of images | Capitalising axes | Axes | Multipanel Figures | Number of lines/items per plot | Defining standard geoms | Display of uncertainty | Bayesian | Frequentist | Formatting for age group intervals | Alt-text | Flexibility
Modelling heterogeneous susceptibility2 years ago
Use case | What we have | What we assume | Primer on heterogeneous susceptibility | Getting $R_0$ and contact and demography data | Susceptibility variation between age groups | Calculate the effective $R_0$ | Calculate the final epidemic size | Susceptibility variation within and between age groups | Getting data on within-group susceptibility differences | Heterogeneous susceptibility without social contact heterogeneity | References
Theoretical background2 years ago
From SIR to final size with homogeneous mixing | Varying susceptibility | Final size equation with heterogeneous mixing | References
Design Principles for tracetheme2 years ago
Scope | Input/Output/Interoperability | Design decisions | Alignment with Epiverse-TRACE web theme | Accessibility requirements | Dependencies
Epiverse-TRACE ggplot2 theme and scale demo2 years ago
Line graphs/time series | Scatter plots | Bar / column charts | Maps | Distribution plots (parametric and non-parametric) | Densities | Heatmaps | Networks | Concept maps / flowcharts
Software permissions and regulations2 years ago
Scope of regulations | Data privacy and integrity | Internet access | Registration and third parties | Updates
Guide to constructing susceptibility matrices3 years ago
Use case | What we have | What we assume | Primer on susceptibility matrices | Susceptibility matrix | Demography-in-susceptibility matrix | Homogeneous susceptibility | Case 1: Uniform susceptibility | Heterogeneous susceptibility | Case 2: Susceptibility varies between groups | Case 3: Susceptibility varies both between and within groups | Case 4: Susceptibility varies within groups in different proportion | Case 5: Susceptibility varies within three groups | References
Modelling heterogeneous social contacts3 years ago
Use case | What we have | What we assume | Defining a value for $R_0$ | Heterogeneous social mixing | Getting and preparing contact and demography data | Population susceptibility | Why susceptibility and p_susceptibility are matrices | Running final_size | Visualise final sizes | Final size proportions to counts | References
Comparison with a compartmental model3 years ago
SIR model definition | Final size in a uniformly mixing population | Final size with heterogeneous mixing | Prepare population data | Susceptibility varies between groups | Susceptibility varies within groups in different proportions | Complete immunity to infection in part of the population