SUMMER

SAE Unit/area Models and Methods for Estimation in R

Overview

SUMMER is an R package providing an extensive collection of space-time smoothing and small area estimation methods for prevalence estimation using complex survey data, with a special focus on Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) data, and the estimation of child mortality using full birth history data. The package also provides a collection of plotting functions to visualize the estimates in space and time.

Citation

To cite the SUMMER package in publications use

  @Manual{li2020space,
    title = {Space-Time Smoothing of Demographic and Health Indicators using the R Package SUMMER},
    author = {Zehang R Li and Bryan D Martin and Tracy Q Dong and Geir-Arne Fuglstad and Jessica Godwin and John Paige and Andrea Riebler and Samuel Clark and Jon Wakefield},
    year = {2020},
    journal = {arXiv preprint}
  }

To cite specific version of the SUMMER package use

• v1.0.0

  @Manual{summer2020,
  title = {SUMMER: Spatio-Temporal Under-Five Mortality Methods for Estimation},
  author = {Zehang R Li and Bryan D Martin and Yuan Hsiao and Jessica Godwin and Jon Wakefield and Samuel J Clark and Geir-Arne Fuglstad and Andrea Riebler},
  year = {2020},
  note = {R package version 1.0.0},
  }

• earlier versions (e.g., v0.3.0)

  @Manual{summer2019,
  title = {SUMMER: Spatio-Temporal Under-Five Mortality Methods for Estimation},
  author = {Bryan D Martin and Zehang R Li and Yuan Hsiao and Jessica Godwin and Jon Wakefield and Samuel J Clark and Geir-Arne Fuglstad and Andrea Riebler},
  year = {2019},
  note = {R package version 0.3.0},
  }

Installation - CRAN

The package is now available on CRAN. The easiest way to download is to install directly using the code below.

install.packages("SUMMER")

Installation - Development Version

To download the development version of the SUMMER package, use the code below.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("richardli/SUMMER")

Examples of most of the main functions are described in the several vignettes listed on https://cran.r-project.org/package=SUMMER.

Bug Reports / Change Requests

If you encounter a bug or would like make a change request, please file it as an issue here.