Calculating the Final Size of an Epidemic in R

Overview

The R package finalsize

What Is the Final Epidemic Size?

In an epidemic, we often want to know: How many people will eventually get infected?

This is called the final epidemic size. Final size focuses on cumulative impact, not timing.

Why is the Final Epidemic Size Important?

The finalsize package

finalsize implements methods that: Take an estimate of \(R_0\) then return the proportion infected in each group over the epidemic

What exactly does the package do?