Calculate human exposure to biting

get_in_out_exp This function can be used to calculate indoor and outdoor exposure to biting.

get_in_out_exp(activity_cycles, vec_p)

Arguments

activity_cycles

data frame with the following columns:

• HBI: proportion of human biting indoors

• HBO: propotion human biting outdoors

• humans_indoors: proportion of humans indoors

• humans_in_bed:proportion of humans in bed

vec_p

list of vector-specific entomological paramteres (see description of output from function def_vector_params)

Value

The function returns an object with the following attributes:

• Exposure_Indoor_total: indoor exposure proportion

• Exposure_Outdoor_total: outdoor exposure proportion

• Exposure_Indoor_whileinbed: indoor in bed exposure proportion

• Exposure_Outdoor_whileinbed: outdoor in bed exposure proportion

• indoor_resting: proportion of mosquitoes that rest indoors.

All numbers in the output list are proportions of the overall total exposure in the absence of interventions.

References

TO DO

Author

Monica Golumbeanu, monica.golumbeanu@swisstph.ch

Olivier Briët, olivier.briet@swisstph.ch

Nakul Chitnis, nakul.chitnis@swisstph.ch

Tom Smith, thomas.smith@swisstph.ch