RSurveillance (version 0.2.1)
Design and Analysis of Disease Surveillance Activities
Description
A range of functions for the design and
analysis of disease surveillance activities. These functions were
originally developed for animal health surveillance activities but can be
equally applied to aquatic animal, wildlife, plant and human health
surveillance activities. Utilities are included for sample size calculation
and analysis of representative surveys for disease freedom, risk-based
studies for disease freedom and for prevalence estimation.
This package is based on Cameron A., Conraths F., Frohlich A., Schauer B.,
Schulz K., Sergeant E., Sonnenburg J., Staubach C. (2015). R package of
functions for risk-based surveillance. Deliverable 6.24, WP 6 - Decision
making tools for implementing risk-based surveillance, Grant Number
no. 310806, RISKSUR ().
Many of the 'RSurveillance' functions are incorporated into the 'epitools'
website: Sergeant, ESG, 2019. Epitools epidemiological calculators.
Ausvet Pty Ltd. Available at: .