## Further Information

- For this app, the underlying function running the simulation is called `simulate_idpatterns.R`. You can call this function directly, without going through the shiny app. Check the help file for the function for more information.
- If you call the function directly, you need to process the results returned from this function and produce useful output (such as a plot) yourself.
- You could also modify this R function for your own purposes, though that requires experience writing R code. To find out how to do that, type `?DSAIDE` at the R console.
- For some papers discussing ID patterns and seasonality, see e.g. (Dowell 2001, Altizer et al. (2006)).

### References

Altizer, Sonia, Andrew Dobson, Parviez Hosseini, Peter Hudson, Mercedes Pascual, and Pejman Rohani. 2006. “Seasonality and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases.” Ecology Letters 9 (4): 467–84. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00879.x.

Dowell, S F. 2001. “Seasonal Variation in Host Susceptibility and Cycles of Certain Infectious Diseases.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 7 (3): 369–74. doi:10.3201/eid0703.010301.

Keeling, Matt J, and Pejman Rohani. 2008. Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals. Princeton University Press.

Vynnycky, Emilia, and Richard White. 2010. An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling. Oxford University Press.