Package: epichains 0.1.1.9000

James M. Azam

epichains: Simulating and Analysing Transmission Chain Statistics Using Branching Process Models

Provides methods to simulate and analyse the size and length of branching processes with an arbitrary offspring distribution. These can be used, for example, to analyse the distribution of chain sizes or length of infectious disease outbreaks, as discussed in Farrington et al. (2003) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/4.2.279>.

Authors:James M. Azam [aut, cre, cph], Sebastian Funk [aut, cph], Flavio Finger [aut], Zhian N. Kamvar [ctb], Hugo Gruson [ctb, rev], Karim Mané [rev], Pratik Gupte [rev], Joshua W. Lambert [rev], Chris Hartgerink [ctb]

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# Install 'epichains' in R:
install.packages('epichains', repos = c('https://epiverse-trace.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/epiverse-trace/epichains/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://epiverse-trace.github.io

Datasets:
  • covid19_sa - COVID-19 Confirmed Cases Data for South Africa

On CRAN:

Conda:

branching-processesepidemic-dynamicsepidemic-modellingepidemic-simulationsepidemiologyepidemiology-modelsoutbreak-simulatortransmission-chaintransmission-chain-reconstruction

7.91 score 10 stars 30 scripts 317 downloads 6 exports 2 dependencies

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Exports:dborellikelihoodrborelrgborelsimulate_chain_statssimulate_chains

Dependencies:backportscheckmate

Projecting infectious disease incidence: a COVID-19 example
Overview | Data | Setting up the inputs | Onset times | Generation time | Offspring distribution | Simulation controls | Modelling assumptions | Running the simulations | Post-processing | Visualization | References
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Last update: 2026-08-19
Started: 2023-03-06

Getting started with epichains
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
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Last update: 2026-08-18
Started: 2023-09-02

Modelling disease control interventions
Reducing the strength of transmission | Population-wide control | Individual-level control. | Preventing superspreading events | Truncating the generation interval | References
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Last update: 2026-08-18
Started: 2023-11-10

Theoretical background for epichains
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
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Last update: 2025-08-29
Started: 2023-09-25

Design Principles for {epichains}
Scope | Design decisions | Simulation functions | likelihood estimation | Naming and documentation style | Dependencies | Development journey
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Last update: 2024-10-17
Started: 2024-05-15

Literature on branching process applications
Bibliography
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Last update: 2024-06-21
Started: 2023-09-25