CRAN

mem 2.15

The Moving Epidemic Method

Released May 28, 2019 by Jose E. Lozano

This package cannot yet be used with Renjin it depends on other packages which are not available: tidyr 0.8.3 An older version of this package is more compatible with Renjin.

Dependencies

tidyr 0.8.3 ggplot2 3.2.0 mclust 5.4.4 RcppRoll 0.3.0 RColorBrewer 1.1-2 boot 1.3-22 dplyr 0.8.2 EnvStats 2.3.1 sm 2.2-5.6

The Moving Epidemic Method, created by T Vega and JE Lozano (2012, 2015) , , allows the weekly assessment of the epidemic and intensity status to help in routine respiratory infections surveillance in health systems. Allows the comparison of different epidemic indicators, timing and shape with past epidemics and across different regions or countries with different surveillance systems. Also, it gives a measure of the performance of the method in terms of sensitivity and specificity of the alert week.