About
COVID-19 MALAWI
Last update: 02 enero 2023, 21:37:07
The dashboard was developed to support the decision-making of the
Ministry of Health of Malawi on the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19
(2019-nCoV) epidemic. It was elaborated using R - version 4.0.3, a free software
environment for statistical computing and graphics. Also, a Rstudio was using with the packages Rmakrdown and flexdashboard to
can easily a reproducibility.
Data Sources
The dashboard was developed using a database available to the
Ministry of Health of Malawi. Besides, the database of the Our
World in Data website was used
Packages
- Dashboard interface - the flexdashboard
package.
- Read the databases - the googlesheets4
- Visualization - the plotly and ggplot2 packages
- Data manipulation - dplyr, tidyr, lubridate and janitor
packages
- Tables - the DT
package
- Moving average - zoo
- Effective Reproduction Number (Rt) of Covid-19 in Malawi was
estimated using the methodology of Thompson, R. N., Stockwin, J.
E., van Gaalen, R. D., Polonsky, J. A., Kamvar, Z. N., Demarsh, P. A., .
. . Cori, A. (2019). Improved inference of time-varying reproduction
numbers during infectious disease outbreaks. Epidemics, 29,
100356. link with the
package EpiEstim