Package: swash
Type: Package
Title: Health Geography Toolbox for Model-Based Analysis of Infections
        Panel Data
Version: 3.0.3
Date: 2026-11-01
Authors@R: person("Thomas", "Wieland", role = c("aut", "cre"),
                     email = "geowieland@googlemail.com",
                     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5168-9846"))
Author: Thomas Wieland [aut, cre] (ORCID:
        <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5168-9846>)
Maintainer: Thomas Wieland <geowieland@googlemail.com>
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), lubridate, sf, spdep, zoo, strucchange, sfdep
Description: Within epidemic outbreaks, infections grow and decline
        differently between regions, and the velocity of spatial spread
        differs between countries. The swash library offers a set of
        model-based analyses for these topics. Spread velocity may be
        analysed with the Swash-Backwash Model of the Single Epidemic
        Wave by Cliff and Haggett (2006)
        <doi:10.1007/s10109-006-0027-8> and corresponding functions for
        bootstrap confidence intervals, country comparison, and
        visualization of results. Differences in epidemic growth
        between regions may be analysed using logistic growth models,
        exponential growth models, Hawkes processes and breakpoint
        analyses. Cluster and hotspot analyses can be conducted using
        neighborhood matrices. See Wieland (2020)
        <doi:10.18335/region.v7i2.324> for an application of some of
        the mentioned analysis methods. All functionalities are
        accessed by the class "infpan" for infections panel data
        defined in this package, which is built from a data.frame
        provided by the user.
License: GPL-3
Imports: methods
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-11-01 16:18:38 UTC; root
Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-11-01 15:18:43 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/swash
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