IngoingContactChain-methods: `IngoingContactChain`

Description

The ingoing contact chain is the number of holdings in the network of direct and indirect contacts to the root holding, with regard to temporal and order of the contacts during the defined time window used for contact tracing.

Arguments

a ContactTrace object, or a list of ContactTrace objects or a data.frame with movements of animals between holdings, see Trace for details.

root

vector of roots to calculate ingoing contact chain for.

tEnd

the last date to include ingoing movements. Defaults to NULL

days

the number of previous days before tEnd to include ingoing movements. Defaults to NULL

inBegin

the first date to include ingoing movements. Defaults to NULL

inEnd

the last date to include ingoing movements. Defaults to NULL

Value

A data.frame with the following columns: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Details

The time period used for IngoingContactChain can either be specified using tEnd and days or inBegin and inEnd.

If using tEnd and days, the time period for ingoing contacts ends at tEnd and starts at days prior to tEnd. The indegree will be calculated for each combination of root, tEnd and days.

An alternative way is to use inBegin and inEnd. The time period for ingoing contacts starts at inBegin and ends at inEndDate. The vectors root inBegin, inEnd must have the same lengths and the indegree will be calculated for each index of them.

The movements in IngoingContactChain is a data.frame with the following columns: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

References

Dube, C., et al., A review of network analysis terminology and its application to foot-and-mouth disease modelling and policy development. Transbound Emerg Dis 56 (2009) 73-85, doi: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2008.01064.x
Noremark, M., et al., Network analysis of cattle and pig movements in Sweden: Measures relevant for disease control and riskbased surveillance. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 99 (2011) 78-90, doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.12.009

Examples

Run this code

## Load data
data(transfers)

## Perform contact tracing using tEnd and days
contactTrace <- Trace(movements=transfers,
                      root=2645,
                      tEnd='2005-10-31',
                      days=91)

## Calculate ingoing contact chain from a ContactTrace object
ic.1 <- IngoingContactChain(contactTrace)

## Calculate ingoing contact chain using tEnd and days
ic.2 <- IngoingContactChain(transfers,
                            root=2645,
                            tEnd='2005-10-31',
                            days=91)

## Check that the result is identical
identical(ic.1, ic.2)

## Calculate ingoing contact chain for all included herds
## First extract all source and destination from the dataset
root <- sort(unique(c(transfers$source,
                      transfers$destination)))

## Calculate ingoing contact chain
result <- IngoingContactChain(transfers,
                              root=root,
                              tEnd='2005-10-31',
                              days=91)