contributors: Chen-Hsuan Tu, Ta-Chou Ng, and Tzai-Hung Wen
contact: Tzai-Hung Wen, National Taiwan University
email: wenthung@ntu.edu.tw
The package, EpiTrans, provides a new method for quantifying spatially adjusted (time-varying) reproductive numbers that reflects spatial heterogeneity in transmission potential among individuals. This method estimates individual-level effective reproductive numbers and a summarized indicator for population-level time-varying reproductive number.
It provides several functions, including (1) plotting descriptive epidemic trends in time and space; (2) estimating reproductive numbers; (3) visualizing the graphics and animations of individual-level and aggregated-level reproductive numbers.
The package is available from Github. You can install the nightly build using the following R command: