Epidemic forecasting with mechanistic infection models

Welcome to the epifx documentation. This package uses a bootstrap particle filter to generate influenza epidemic forecasts from mechanistic infection models.

Installation

Ensure that pypfilt is installed, then clone the epifx repository and run:

python setup.py install

If you don’t have admin rights, install the package locally:

python setup.py install --user

User Documentation

• Getting Started
  • Simulation parameters
  • Temporal forcing
  • Infection models
  • Observation models
  • Forecast summaries
  • Generating forecasts
  • Comparing forecast outputs