A Framework for Data-Driven Stochastic Disease Spread
Simulations
Description
Livestock movements are important for the spread of many
infectious diseases between herds. The package provides an
efficient and flexible framework for stochastic disease spread
modelling that integrates within-herd disease dynamics as
continuous-time Markov chains and livestock movements between
herds as scheduled events. The core simulation solver is
implemented in C and uses 'OpenMP' (if available) to divide work
over multiple processors. The package contains template models and
can be extended with user defined models.