Alert Time Quality - Evaluating Timely Epidemic Metrics
S3 Summary method for multiple epidemic simulations
S3 Summary method for epidemic Simulation
Create an Alarm Metrics Object
Create Alarm Plot Data Object
Create Best Model
Simulating catchment areas
Compile Epidemic Data
Create Alarm Metrics Summary
Create Elementary Schools population size
Plot method for multiple SSIR epidemic simulations
Evaluate Alarm Metrics for Epidemic Models
Plot a single epidemic simulation
Plot Heatmap of Alarm Metrics
Plot Epidemic Data with Alarm Metrics
Plot method for a single SSIR epidemic simulation
Simulate total households and individuals data
Stochastic SIR simulation
Simulate households with children
Simulate households without children
Summary of Alarm Metrics
Provides tools for evaluating timely epidemic detection models within school absenteeism-based surveillance systems. Introduces the concept of alert time quality as an evaluation metric. Includes functions to simulate populations, epidemics, and alert metrics associated with epidemic spread using population census data. The methods are based on research published in Vanderkruk et al. (2023) <doi:10.1186/s12889-023-15747-z> and Ward et al. (2019) <doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7521-7>.
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