Routines for epidemiological contact tracing
    and visualisation of network of contacts.

Evaluation Platform in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (EPIC) is a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model that simulates health outcomes of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) based on demographics and individual-level risk factors, based on the model published in Sadatsafavi et al. (2019) <doi:10.1177/0272989X18824098>.

Creates simple or stacked epidemic curves for hourly, daily, weekly or monthly outcome data.

The Economic Policy Institute (<https://www.epi.org/>) provides
    researchers, media, and the public with easily accessible, up-to-date, and
    comprehensive historical data on the American labor force. It is compiled
    from Economic Policy Institute analysis of government data sources. Use
    it to research wages, inequality, and other economic indicators over time
    and among demographic groups. Data is usually updated monthly.

The Delphi 'Epidata' API provides real-time access to
    epidemiological surveillance data for influenza, 'COVID-19', and other
    diseases for the USA at various geographical resolutions, both from
    official government sources such as the Center for Disease Control
    (CDC) and Google Trends and private partners such as Facebook and
    Change 'Healthcare'. It is built and maintained by the Carnegie Mellon
    University Delphi research group. To cite this API: David C. Farrow,
    Logan C. Brooks, Aaron 'Rumack', Ryan J. 'Tibshirani', 'Roni'
    'Rosenfeld' (2015). Delphi 'Epidata' API.
    <https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata>.

Provides functions for calculating mortality indicators. These include geometric interpolation between two periods and projections for future years, as described in the textbook by Laurenti, Mello Jorge, Lebrão and Gotlieb (2005, ISBN:9788512408309), the standardised mortality ratio (Bruce, Pope and Stanistreet, 2018, ISBN:9781118665411), the age-adjusted mortality rate (direct standardisation), years of potential life lost (Gardner and Sanborn, 1990, <doi:10.1097/00001648-199007000-00012>; Ma, Ward, Siegel and Jemal, 2015, <doi:10.1001/jama.2015.12319>), and age-standardised years of potential life lost (Silva Filho et al., 2024 <doi:10.1590/1413-81232024293.04702023EN>). Confidence intervals for the standardised mortality ratio are obtained according to Vandenbroucke (1982) <doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113306> and Ulm (1990) <doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115507>. The function also includes a function that produces a graph similar to an age pyramid.