fastbeta: Fast Approximation of Time-Varying Infectious Disease Transmission Rates
A fast method for approximating time-varying infectious disease transmission rates from disease incidence time series and other data, based on a discrete time approximation of an SEIR model, as analyzed in Jagan et al. (2020) <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008124>.
| Version: | 0.5.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.3) |
| Imports: | grDevices, graphics, stats |
| Suggests: | adaptivetau, deSolve, tools, utils |
| Published: | 2025-10-26 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.fastbeta |
| Author: | Mikael Jagan 
[aut, cre],
David Earn [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Mikael Jagan <jaganmn at mcmaster.ca> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/davidearn/fastbeta/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: | https://github.com/davidearn/fastbeta |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | fastbeta results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | fastbeta.html , fastbeta.pdf |
Downloads:
| Package source: | fastbeta_0.5.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: fastbeta_0.5.1.zip, r-release: fastbeta_0.5.1.zip, r-oldrel: fastbeta_0.5.1.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): fastbeta_0.5.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): fastbeta_0.5.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): fastbeta_0.5.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): fastbeta_0.5.1.tgz |
| Old sources: | fastbeta archive |
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