Package: epidist
Title: Estimate Epidemiological Delay Distributions with 'brms'
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: 
  c(person(given = "Adam",
           family = "Howes",
           role = c("aut"),
           email = "adamthowes@gmail.com",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2386-4031")),
    person(given = "Sang Woo",
           family = "Park",
           role = c("aut"),
           email = "swp2@princeton.edu",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2202-3361")),
    person(given = "Sam",
           family = "Abbott",
           role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
           email = "contact@samabbott.co.uk",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8057-8037")),
    person(given = "Sebastian",
           family = "Funk",
           role = c("ctb"),
           email = "sebastian.funk@lshtm.ac.uk",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2842-3406")))
Description: Understanding and accurately estimating epidemiological delay
    distributions is important for public health policy. These estimates
    influence epidemic situational awareness, control strategies,
    and resource allocation. This package provides methods to address the
    key challenges in estimating these distributions, including truncation,
    interval censoring, and dynamical biases, following Park et al. (2024)
    <doi:10.1101/2024.01.12.24301247> and Charniga et al. (2024)
    <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012520>. These issues are frequently
    overlooked, resulting in biased conclusions. Built on top of 'brms',
    it allows for flexible modelling including time-varying and spatial
    effects and partially pooled estimates of demographic characteristics.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://epidist.epinowcast.org/,
        https://github.com/epinowcast/epidist/
BugReports: https://github.com/epinowcast/epidist/issues/
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: brms (>= 2.23.0), checkmate, cli, dplyr, lubridate,
        primarycensored (>= 1.6.0), purrr, rstan (>= 2.26.0), stats,
        tibble, tidyr, utils
Suggests: MASS, bayesplot, bookdown, collapse, distspec (>= 0.2.0),
        flexsurv, ggplot2, knitr, loo, marginaleffects, patchwork,
        posterior, priorsense, reformulas, roxyglobals, scales,
        spelling, testthat (>= 3.0.0), tidybayes, withr
Config/Needs/website: r-lib/pkgdown, epinowcast/enwtheme
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/roxyglobals/filename: globals.R
Config/roxyglobals/unique: FALSE
LazyData: true
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-GB
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-09-29 18:46:17 UTC; lshsa2
Author: Adam Howes [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2386-4031>),
  Sang Woo Park [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2202-3361>),
  Sam Abbott [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8057-8037>),
  Sebastian Funk [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2842-3406>)
Maintainer: Sam Abbott <contact@samabbott.co.uk>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-10-13 14:40:02 UTC
