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RLadyBug – an R package for stochastic epidemic models. (English) Zbl 1317.62003

Summary: RLadyBug is an S4 package for the simulation, visualization and estimation of stochastic epidemic models in R. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference can be performed to estimate the parameters in a susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered (SEIR) model, which is a stochastic model for describing a single outbreak of an infectious disease. The package is thus one step towards statistical software supporting parameter estimation, calculation of confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for transmission models.

MSC:

62-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics
62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis
92D30 Epidemiology

Software:

S4; R; CODA; boa; rJava; RladyBug
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