Temporal downscaling of entomological surveillance observations

spreader(
  mydf = NULL,
  date.field = NULL,
  value.field = NULL,
  counter.field = NULL,
  seed = 123
)

Arguments

mydf: A data.frame.
date.field: character, name of field containing dates.
value.field: integer, name of field containing the number of individuals sampled.
counter.field: integer, name of the field containing the number of days/weeks between each sampling. This is optional, if NULL then the function will compute the value assuming the trap was active during the whole period between two consecutive samplings.
seed: integer, define the seed for the binomial draws, default seed = 123.

Returns a data.frame with the "adjusted value", i.e. the observation spread over the period of activity of the trap