SimInf: An R Package for Data-Driven Stochastic Disease Spread Simulations
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| Authors | Stefan Widgren, Pavol Bauer, Robin Eriksson, Stefan Engblom |
| Journal/Conference Name | arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01421 [q-bio.PE] |
| Paper Category | Other |
| Paper Abstract | We present the R package SimInf which provides an efficient and very flexible framework to conduct data-driven epidemiological modeling in realistic large scale disease spread simulations. The framework integrates infection dynamics in subpopulations as continuous-time Markov chains using the Gillespie stochastic simulation algorithm and incorporates available data such as births, deaths and movements as scheduled events at predefined time-points. Using C code for the numerical solvers and OpenMP to divide work over multiple processors ensures high performance when simulating a sample outcome. One of our design goal was to make SimInf extendable and enable usage of the numerical solvers from other R extension packages in order to facilitate complex epidemiological research. In this paper, we provide a technical description of the framework and demonstrate its use on some basic examples. We also discuss how to specify and extend the framework with user-defined models. |
| Date of publication | 2016 |
| Code Programming Language | R |
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