To cite package ‘DESA’ in publications use:

  Joshy V, Feng Z, Deeth L, Slater J, Vanderkruk K (2025). _DESA:
  Detecting Epidemics using School Absenteeism_. R package version
  1.0.0, <https://github.com/vjoshy/desa>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {DESA: Detecting Epidemics using School Absenteeism},
    author = {Vinay Joshy and Zeny Feng and Lorna Deeth and Justin Slater and Kayla Vanderkruk},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 1.0.0},
    url = {https://github.com/vjoshy/desa},
  }