fastbeta: Fast Approximation of Time-Varying Infectious Disease Transmission Rates

A fast method for approximating time-varying infectious disease transmission rates from disease incidence time series and other data, based on a discrete time approximation of an SEIR model, as analyzed in Jagan et al. (2020) <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008124>.

Version:	0.5.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.3)
Imports:	grDevices, graphics, stats
Suggests:	adaptivetau, deSolve, tools, utils
Published:	2025-10-15
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.fastbeta
Author:	Mikael Jagan [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Mikael Jagan <jaganmn at mcmaster.ca>
BugReports:	https://github.com/davidearn/fastbeta/issues
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL:	https://github.com/davidearn/fastbeta
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	fastbeta results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

fastbeta.html , fastbeta.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	fastbeta_0.5.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: fastbeta_0.5.0.zip, r-release: fastbeta_0.5.0.zip, r-oldrel: fastbeta_0.5.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): fastbeta_0.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): fastbeta_0.5.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): fastbeta_0.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): fastbeta_0.5.0.tgz
Old sources:	fastbeta archive

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