Bootstrap particle filter for epidemic forecasting


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Install
pip install pypfilt==0.8.2

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Bootstrap particle filter for epidemic forecasting

Description

This package implements a bootstrap particle filter, intended for use with mechanistic infection models to generate forecasts for epidemic outbreaks.

Documentation

The documentation is available online and can be built locally with sphinx:

python setup.py build_sphinx

Note that the sphinx_rtd_theme theme must be installed.

License

The code is distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause license (see LICENSE), and the documentation is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.

Installation

Clone this repository and execute:

python setup.py install

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

python setup.py install --user

Dependencies

This package requires h5py 2.2 or newer, NumPy 1.8 or newer, and SciPy 0.11 or newer.