Package: epichains
Title: Simulating and Analysing Transmission Chain Statistics Using
        Branching Process Models
Version: 0.1.1.9000
Authors@R: c(
    person("James M.", "Azam", , "james.azam@lshtm.ac.uk", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5782-7330")),
    person("Sebastian", "Funk", , "sebastian.funk@lshtm.ac.uk", role = c("aut", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2842-3406")),
    person("Flavio", "Finger", , "flavio.finger@epicentre.msf.org", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8613-5170")),
    person("Zhian N.", "Kamvar", , "zkamvar@gmail.com", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1458-7108")),
    person("Hugo", "Gruson", , "hugo@data.org", role = c("ctb", "rev"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4094-1476")),
    person("Karim", "Mané", , "karim.mane@lshtm.ac.uk", role = "rev",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9892-2999")),
    person("Pratik", "Gupte", , "pratik.gupte@lshtm.ac.uk", role = "rev",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5294-7819")),
    person("Joshua W.", "Lambert", , "joshua.lambert@lshtm.ac.uk", role = "rev",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5218-3046")),
    person("Chris", "Hartgerink", , "chris@data.org", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1050-6809"))
  )
Description: 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>.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/epiverse-trace/epichains,
        https://epiverse-trace.github.io/epichains/
BugReports: https://github.com/epiverse-trace/epichains/issues
Depends: R (>= 3.6.0)
Imports: checkmate, stats, utils
Suggests: bookdown, dplyr, epicontacts, ggplot2, knitr, lubridate,
        rmarkdown, spelling, testthat, truncdist
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/Needs/website: epiverse-trace/epiversetheme
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-GB
LazyData: true
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2.9000
Repository: https://epiverse-trace.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-07-09 10:55:35 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/epiverse-trace/epichains
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 435544e37a3af295f7cd74ae87c50c6b439b5630
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-09 14:26:33 UTC; root
Author: James M. Azam [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5782-7330>),
  Sebastian Funk [aut, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2842-3406>),
  Flavio Finger [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8613-5170>),
  Zhian N. Kamvar [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>),
  Hugo Gruson [ctb, rev] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4094-1476>),
  Karim Mané [rev] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9892-2999>),
  Pratik Gupte [rev] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5294-7819>),
  Joshua W. Lambert [rev] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5218-3046>),
  Chris Hartgerink [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1050-6809>)
Maintainer: James M. Azam <james.azam@lshtm.ac.uk>