This R package provides compartmental epidemic models for forecasting and analysis of infectious diseases

Details

The user guide provides extensive information on the history of McMasterPandemic, installation, building a simple SIR model, and a library of examples.

If you clicked on the history link above, you will have read that McMasterPandemic started out as a specific set of models for the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. To get started with this functionality for using these specific models, read the introductory vignette, which can be viewed via vignette("getting_started",package="McMasterPandemic"). Use browseVignettes("McMasterPandemic") to find other vignettes for this package.

Author

Maintainer: Ben Bolker bolker@mcmaster.ca

Authors:

  • Steve Walker

  • David Earn

  • Morgan Kain

  • Mike Li

  • Jonathan Dushoff

Other contributors:

  • Zach Levine [contributor]

  • Matthew So [contributor]

  • Weiguang Guan [contributor]

  • Darren Flynn-Primrose [contributor]