aedseo

Description

The Automated and Early Detection of Seasonal Epidemic Onset (aedseo) Package provides a powerful tool for automating the early detection of seasonal epidemic onsets in time series data. It offers the ability to estimate growth rates for consecutive time intervals and calculate the Sum of Cases (SoC) within those intervals. This package is particularly useful for epidemiologists, public health professionals, and researchers seeking to identify and respond to seasonal epidemics in a timely fashion.

Installation

# Install aedseo from CRAN
install.packages("aedseo")

Development version

You can install the development version of aedseo from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ssi-dk/aedseo")

Getting started

To quickly get started with aedseo, follow these steps:

1. Install the package using the code provided above.
2. Load the package with library(aedseo).
3. Create a time series data object (tsd) from your data using the to_time_series() function or generate_seasonal_data() functions.
4. Apply the combined_seasonal_output() function to get a comprehensive seasonal analysis with seasonal onset and burden levels.

Vignette

For a more detailed introduction to the workflow of this package, see the introductory vignette.

# After installing the package
vignette("aedseo")

Contributing

We welcome contributions to the aedseo package. Feel free to open issues, submit pull requests, or provide feedback to help us improve.