amei (version 1.0-7)

getpolicy: Extract The Optimal Static Vaccination Policy

Description

Extracts the optimal static vaccination policy from an "optvac"-class object

Usage

getpolicy(obj, which = c("best", "worst"))

Arguments

obj

and "optvac"-class object

which

optionally, by supplying which = "worst" the worst static vaccination policy can be extracted

Value

The output is a data.frame with scalar entries

row

the row of vacgrid$stops from the "optvac"-class object corresponding to the lowest (or highest) cost

col

the row of vacgrid$fracs from the "optvac"-class object corresponding to the lowest (or highest) cost

frac

the actual optimal fraction to vaccinate from the vacgrid table

stop

the actual optimal (stopping) threshold from the vacgrid table

cost

the cost associated with the optimal static vaccination strategy

Details

This function is designed to work with the output of the optvac function, and to provide inputs to the MCepi function. It searches the cost grid defined by vacgrid for the lowest (or highest) cost, and returns this information

References

D. Merl, L.R. Johnson, R.B. Gramacy, and M.S. Mangel (2010). “amei: An R Package for the Adaptive Management of Epidemiological Interventions”. Journal of Statistical Software 36(6), 1-32. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i06/ D. Merl, L.R. Johnson, R.B. Gramacy, M.S. Mangel (2009). “A Statistical Framework for the Adaptive Management of Epidemiological Interventions”. PLoS ONE, 4(6), e5807. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0005807

See Also

optvac, plot.optvac, MCepi

Examples

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