# --------------------------------------------
# CITATION file created with {cffr} R package
# See also: https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/
# --------------------------------------------
 
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: 'To cite package "individual" in publications use:'
type: software
license: MIT
title: 'individual: Framework for Specifying and Simulating Individual Based Models'
version: 0.1.19
doi: 10.21105/joss.03539
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.individual
abstract: A framework which provides users a set of useful primitive elements for
  specifying individual based simulation models, with special attention models for
  infectious disease epidemiology. Users build models by specifying variables for
  each characteristic of individuals in the simulated population by using data structures
  exposed by the package. The package provides efficient methods for finding subsets
  of individuals based on these variables, or cohorts. Cohorts can then be targeted
  for variable updates or scheduled for events. Variable updates queued during a time
  step are executed at the end of a discrete time step, and the code places no restrictions
  on how individuals are allowed to interact. These data structures are designed to
  provide an intuitive way for users to turn their conceptual model of a system into
  executable code, which is fast and memory efficient.
authors:
- family-names: Charles
  given-names: Giovanni
  email: giovanni.charles@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7024-1200
- family-names: Wu
  given-names: Sean L.
  email: slwood89@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5781-9493
- family-names: Winskill
  given-names: Peter
  email: p.winskill@imperial.ac.uk
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3001-4959
- family-names: Liétar
  given-names: Paul
  email: paul.lietar13@imperial.ac.uk
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3813-6227
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'individual: An R package for individual-based epidemiological models'
  authors:
  - family-names: Charles
    given-names: Giovanni D.
  - family-names: Wu
    given-names: Sean L.
    email: slwood89@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5781-9493
  journal: Journal of Open Source Software
  year: '2021'
  volume: '6'
  issue: '66'
  url: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03539
  doi: 10.21105/joss.03539
  publisher:
    name: The Open Journal
  start: '3539'
repository: https://mrc-ide.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/mrc-ide/individual
commit: 50524f239e965d38b40f178290262760f252fc60
url: https://mrc-ide.github.io/individual/
date-released: '2026-06-08'
contact:
- family-names: Charles
  given-names: Giovanni
  email: giovanni.charles@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7024-1200