Package: DESA
Title: Detecting Epidemics using School Absenteeism
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2025-05-01
Authors@R: c(
    person("Vinay", "Joshy", email = "joshy@uoguelph.ca", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph")),
    person("Zeny", "Feng", email = "zfeng@uoguelph.ca", role = c("aut", "cph", "ths")),
    person("Lorna", "Deeth", email = "ldeeth@uoguelph.ca", role = c("aut", "cph", "ths")),
    person("Justin", "Slater", email = "jslate04@uoguelph.ca", role = c("aut", "cph", "ths")),
    person("Kayla", "Vanderkruk", email = "kayla.vanderkruk@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "com", "ctb")))
Description: Provides a comprehensive framework for early epidemic
        detection through school absenteeism surveillance. The package
        offers three core functionalities: (1) simulation of population
        structures, epidemic spread, and resulting school absenteeism
        patterns; (2) implementation of surveillance models that
        generate alerts for impending epidemics based on absenteeism
        data and (3) evaluation of alert timeliness and accuracy
        through alert time quality metrics to optimize model
        parameters. These tools enable public health officials and
        researchers to develop and assess early warning systems before
        implementation. Methods are based on research published in
        Vanderkruk et al. (2023) <doi:10.1186/s12889-023-15747-z> and
        Ward et al. (2019) <doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7521-7>.
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: https://github.com/vjoshy/DESA
Encoding: UTF-8
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, cli, fansi, farver, utf8, devtools,
        testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Imports: dplyr, purrr, zoo, ggplot2, gridExtra, rlang, scales
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
BugReports: https://github.com/vjoshy/DESA/issues
Repository: https://vjoshy.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2025-12-18 00:47:10 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/vjoshy/desa
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 5f647b7df6fad5b2fab2c8cde882c2603d0db246
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-14 08:39:56 UTC; root
Author: Vinay Joshy [aut, cre, cph],
  Zeny Feng [aut, cph, ths],
  Lorna Deeth [aut, cph, ths],
  Justin Slater [aut, cph, ths],
  Kayla Vanderkruk [aut, com, ctb]
Maintainer: Vinay Joshy <joshy@uoguelph.ca>