IxPopDyMod: an R package to write, run, and analyze tick population and infection dynamics models.

ABSTRACT: Given the increasing prevalence of tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, modeling the population and infection dynamics of tick vectors is an important public health tool. These models have applications for testing the effects of control methods or climate change on tick populations. There is an established history of tick population models, but code for them is rarely shared, especially not in a convenient format for others to modify and use. We present an R package, called IxPopDyMod, intended to function as a flexible and consistent framework for reproducible Ixodidae (hard-bodied ticks) population dynamics models. Here we focus on two key parts of the package: a function to create valid model configurations and a function to run a configured model and return the daily population o

SUBMITTER: Stokowski M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10898031 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature