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 (>= 4.1.0)
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)
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.0
Repository: https://epiverse-trace.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-08-20 13:20:00 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/epiverse-trace/epichains
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 4750626599dc01a4091903b276a106ac25cb4aa8
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-09-19 09:03:30 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>