R package prevalence | Center for Burden and Risk Assessment

prevalence 0.4.0 / download & installation

The prevalence package provides Frequentist and Bayesian methods useful in prevalence assessment studies. Several methods are available for estimating True Prevalence (TP) from Apparent Prevalence (AP).

Version 0.4.0 of the prevalence package is available on CRAN. Source code of the development version is on GitHub.

This is how you can install the prevalence package in R:

download and install the latest version of R via cran.r-project.org
download and install JAGS via mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net
download and install the prevalence package via

```
install.packages("prevalence")
```

Finally, to attach prevalence to your R session, simply run

library(prevalence)

Shiny apps

The truePrev function is also available as a Shiny app: http://prevalence.cbra.be/shiny/truePrev

Package description

packageDescription("prevalence")
#> Package: prevalence
#> Type: Package
#> Title: Tools for Prevalence Assessment Studies
#> Version: 0.4.0
#> Date: 2015-04-20
#> Authors@R: c(person("Brecht", "Devleesschauwer", role = c("aut",
#>        "cre"), email = "brechtdv@gmail.com"), person("Paul",
#>        "Torgerson", role = "aut"), person("Johannes", "Charlier",
#>        role = "aut"), person("Bruno", "Levecke", role = "aut"),
#>        person("Nicolas", "Praet", role = "aut"), person("Sophie",
#>        "Roelandt", role = "aut"), person("Suzanne", "Smit", role =
#>        "aut"), person("Pierre", "Dorny", role = "aut"),
#>        person("Dirk", "Berkvens", role = "aut"), person("Niko",
#>        "Speybroeck", role = "aut"))
#> Author: Brecht Devleesschauwer [aut, cre], Paul Torgerson [aut],
#>        Johannes Charlier [aut], Bruno Levecke [aut], Nicolas Praet
#>        [aut], Sophie Roelandt [aut], Suzanne Smit [aut], Pierre
#>        Dorny [aut], Dirk Berkvens [aut], Niko Speybroeck [aut]
#> Maintainer: Brecht Devleesschauwer <brechtdv@gmail.com>
#> BugReports: https://github.com/brechtdv/prevalence/issues
#> Description: The prevalence package provides Frequentist and
#>        Bayesian methods for prevalence assessment studies.
#>        IMPORTANT: the truePrev functions in the prevalence package
#>        call on JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler), which therefore
#>        has to be available on the user's system. JAGS can be
#>        downloaded from http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/.
#> Depends: R (>= 3.0.0), rjags, coda, methods
#> SystemRequirements: JAGS (>= 3.2.0) (see
#>        http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net)
#> License: GPL (>= 2)
#> URL: http://prevalence.cbra.be/
#> LazyLoad: yes
#> NeedsCompilation: no
#> Packaged: 2015-04-20 14:55:49 UTC; UGent
#> Built: R 3.3.0; ; 2015-04-20 15:00:40 UTC; windows
#> 
#> -- File: C:/Users/UGent/Documents/R/win-library/prevalence/Meta/package.rds