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All notable changes to the codebase are documented in this file. Changes that may result in differences in model output, or are required in order to run an old parameter set with the current version, are flagged with the term “Regression information”.

Version 2.0.2 (2024-03-05)#

  • Modifies DALY analyzer to output YLLL, YLD and DALYs

  • Github info PR 659

Version 2.0.1 (2024-02-14)#

  • Adds in relative transmissibility attribute to people that can be modified by vaccination or treatment

  • Github info PR 643

Version 2.0.0 (2023-11-29)#

  • Simplifies natural history model by compressing CIN grades

  • Changes the way HPV progression is modeled so that there is a probability of developing CIN based upon duration of precin and probability of cancer based upon duration of cancer (based upon Rodriguez et al. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705579/)

  • Adds support for pre-calibration explorations

  • Improvements to networks, including clustering functionality, support for different distributions for male and female partners and for differing concurrency rates, and changes to default partnership durations

  • Exposes a parameter for specifying the sex ratio of a population

  • Fixes plotting issue with tutorial

  • Updates filtering for tests that are not genotype-specific

  • Github info PR 643

Version 1.2.7 (2023-09-22)#

  • Updates sim.summary to have more useful information

  • Github info PR 618

Version 1.2.6 (2023-09-22)#

  • Fixes plotting issue with MultiSims and Jupyter notebooks

  • Allows scenarios to be run fully in parallel

  • Github info PR 614

Version 1.2.5 (2023-09-21)#

  • Fixes file path when run via Jupyter

  • Github info PR 610

Version 1.2.4 (2023-09-19)#

  • Fixes Matplotlib regression in plotting

  • Github info PR 609

Version 1.2.3 (2023-08-30)#

  • Updates data loading to be much more efficient

  • Github info PR 604

Version 1.2.2 (2023-08-11)#

  • Improved tests and included conda environment specification

  • Github info PR 598

Version 1.2.1 (2023-07-09)#

  • Updated data files being used

  • Github info PR 586

Version 1.2.0 (2023-05-31)#

  • Changes to improve run speed, most notably changes to how migration is applied

  • Additional tests to ensure consistency between calibration results, age analyzer results, and sim results

  • Updates to natural history to prevent people progressing too quickly to cancer

  • Github info PR 576

Version 1.1.5 (2023-03-23)#

  • Adds cross-protection functionality to t-cell immunity and adds sev_imm attribute to people

  • Github info PR 564

Version 1.1.4 (2023-03-15)#

  • Fixes bug that caused location data to be loaded twice

  • Github info PR 546

Version 1.1.3 (2023-03-14)#

  • Fixes bug that misses some ways you can specify sex for vaccination

  • Github info PR 555

Version 1.1.2 (2023-03-13)#

  • Fixes bug that never computed cancer deaths by age

  • Github info PR 554

Version 1.1.1 (2023-03-01)#

  • Sets time to and date of HIV death for those not on ART and who fail on ART

  • Moves all HIV attributes, parameters, and results into hivsim class instance

  • Merges HIV results with sim.results at conclusion of simulation

  • Adds HIV pars as an argument to calibration as well as HIV-specific results to age-results analyzer

  • Allows for flexible severity growth functions

  • Github info PR 542

Version 1.1.0 (2023-02-16)#

  • Moves all HIV functionality into hiv.py

  • Establishes new class HIVsim, which is defined by a set of parameters and methods for updating a people object

  • Bug fix for setting people.sev wrong on day of infection

  • Github info PR 526

Version 1.0.1 (2023-02-09)#

  • Fixes computation of dur_episomal by adjusting for dt

  • GitHub info: PR 527

Version 1.0.0 (2023-01-31)#

  • Official release!

  • GitHub info: PR 521

Version 0.4.17 (2023-01-31)#

  • Adds a tutorial on calibration

  • Small changes to parameter values

  • GitHub info: PR 520

Version 0.4.16 (2023-01-30)#

  • Change to natural history, including computation of transformation based upon time with dysplasia

  • Addition of cellular immunity to moderate progression in a secondary infection

  • Default parameter changes and some small typo/bug fixes

  • GitHub info: PR 513

Version 0.4.15 (2023-01-13)#

  • Fixed bug in intervention and analyzer initialization

  • GitHub info: PR 511

Version 0.4.14 (2023-01-11)#

  • Add Sweep class

  • GitHub info: PR 431

Version 0.4.13 (2023-01-09)#

  • Dysplasia percentages are now tracked throughout agent lifetimes, and CIN grades are defined as properties based on these percentages

  • Removes all genotypes aside from HPV 16, 18 and a composite ‘other high risk’ genotype from the defaults

  • GitHub info: PR 507

Version 0.4.12 (2023-01-02)#

  • Adds documentation and examples for screening algorithms.

  • GitHub info: PR 505

Version 0.4.11 (2022-12-21)#

  • Adds colposcopy and cytology testing options, along with default values for screening sensitivity and specificity.

  • Adds a clearance probability for treatment to control the % of treated women who also clear their infection

  • Removes use_multiscale parameter and sets ms_agent_ratio to 1 by default

  • GitHub info: PR 497

Version 0.4.10 (2022-12-19)#

  • Change the seed used for running simulations to avoid having random processes in the model run sometimes being correlated with population attributes

  • Deprecate Sim.set_seed() - use hpu.set_seed() instead

  • Added hpvsim.rootdir to provide a convenient absolute path to the

  • Added equality operator for Result objects

  • Exporting simulation results to JSON now includes 2D results (e.g., by genotype)

  • age_pyramid and age_results analyzer argument changed from datafile to data since this input supports both passing in a filename or a dataframe

  • GitHub info: PR 485

Version 0.4.9 (2022-12-16)#

  • Added in high- and low-grade lesions to type distribution results

  • Changes default duration and rate of dysplasia for hr HPVs

  • GitHub info: PR 479

Version 0.4.8 (2022-12-14)#

  • Small bug fix to re-enable plots of cytology outcomes by genotype

  • GitHub info: PR 484

Version 0.4.7 (2022-12-13)#

  • Migration is now modeled by finding mismatches between the modeled population size by age and data on population sizes by age (previously, this adjustment was done for the overall population rather than by age bucket).

  • GitHub info: PR 479

Version 0.4.6 (2022-12-12)#

  • Changes to several default parameters: default genotypes are now 16, 18, and other high-risk; and default hpv control prob is now 0.

  • Results now capture infections by age and type distributions.

  • Adds age of cancer to analyzer

  • Changes to default plotting styles

  • Various bugfixes: prevents immunity values from exceeding 1, ensures people with cancer aren’t given second cancers

  • GitHub info: PR 458

Version 0.4.5 (2022-12-06)#

  • Removes default screening products pending review

  • GitHub info: PR 464

Version 0.4.4 (2022-12-05)#

  • Changes to progression to cancer – no longer based on clinical cutoffs, now stochastically applied by genotype to CIN3 agents

  • GitHub info: PR 430

Version 0.4.3 (2022-12-01)#

  • Fixes bug with population growth function

  • GitHub info: PR 459

Version 0.4.2 (2022-11-21)#

  • Changes to parameterization of immunity

  • GitHub info: PR 425

Version 0.4.1 (2022-11-21)#

  • Fixes age of migration

  • Adds scale parameter for vital dynamics

  • GitHub info: PR 423

Version 0.4.0 (2022-11-16)#

  • Adds merge method for scenarios and fixes printing bugs

  • GitHub info: PR 422

Version 0.3.9 (2022-11-15)#

  • Simplifies genotype initialization, adds checks for HIV runs.

  • Since the last release, changes were also made to virological clearance rates for people receiving treatment - previously all treated people would clear infection, but now some may control latently instead.

  • GitHub info: PRs 421 and 420

Version 0.3.8 (2022-11-02)#

  • Store treatment properties as part of sim.people

  • GitHub info: PR 413

Version 0.3.7 (2022-11-01)#

  • Fix to ensure consistent results for the number of txvx doses

  • GitHub info: PR 411

Version 0.3.6 (2022-11-01)#

  • Fix bug related to screening eligibility. NB, this has a sizeable impact on results - screening strategies will be much more effective after this fix.

  • GitHub info: PR 396

Version 0.3.5 (2022-10-31)#

  • Store stocks related to interventions

  • GitHub info: PR 395

Version 0.3.4 (2022-10-31)#

  • Bugfixes for therapeutic vaccination

  • GitHub info: PR 394

Version 0.3.3 (2022-10-30)#

  • Changes to therapeautic vaccine efficacy assumptions

  • GitHub info: PR 393

Version 0.3.2 (2022-10-26)#

  • Additional tutorials and minor release tidying

  • GitHub info: PR 380

Version 0.3.1 (2022-10-26)#

  • Fixes bug with screening

  • Increases coverage of baseline test

  • GitHub info: PR 373

Version 0.3.0 (2022-10-26)#

  • Implements multiscale modeling

  • Minor release tidying

  • GitHub info: PR 365

Version 0.2.11 (2022-10-25)#

  • Changes the way dates of HPV clearance are assigned to use durations sampled

  • GitHub info: PR 374

Version 0.2.10 (2022-10-24)#

  • Fixes bug with treatment

  • GitHub info: PR 354

Version 0.2.9 (2022-10-18)#

  • Prevents infectious people from being passed to People.infect()

  • Fixes bugs with initialization within scenario runs

  • Remove ununsed prevalence results

  • GitHub info: PR 338

Version 0.2.8 (2022-10-17)#

  • Fixes bug with intervention year interpolation

  • Changes reactivation probabilities to annual, not per time step

  • Refactor prognoses calls

  • GitHub info: PR 338

Version 0.2.7 (2022-10-14)#

  • Adds robust relative paths via hpv.datadir

  • GitHub info: PR 333

Version 0.2.6 (2022-10-12)#

  • Removes Numba since slower for small sims and only 10% faster for large sims.

  • Moves functions from utils.py into people.py, sim.py, and population.py.

  • GitHub info: PR 326

Version 0.2.5 (2022-10-07)#

  • Adds people filtering (NB: not used, and later removed).

  • Fixes bug with print(sim) not working.

  • Adds baseline tests.

  • GitHub info: PR 310

Version 0.2.4 (2022-10-07)#

  • Changes to dysplasia progression parameterization

  • Adds a new implementation of HPV natural history for HIV positive women

  • Note: HIV was added since the previous version

  • GitHub info: PR 304

Version 0.2.3 (2022-09-01)#

  • Adds a use_migration parameter that activates immigration/emigration to ensure population sizes line up with data.

  • Adds simple data versioning.

  • GitHub info: PR 279

Version 0.2.2 (2022-08-22)#

  • Separates out the Calibration class into a separate file and to no longer inherit from Analyzer. Functionality is unchanged.

  • GitHub info: PR 255

Version 0.2.1 (2022-08-19)#

  • Improves calibration to enable support for MySQL.

  • Fixes plotting bug.

  • GitHub info: PR 253

Version 0.2.0 (2022-08-19)#

  • Fixed tests and data loading logic.

  • GitHub info: PR 251

Version 0.1.0 (2022-08-01)#

  • Updated calibration.

  • GitHub info: PR 215

Version 0.0.3 (2022-07-18)#

  • Updated data loading scripts.

  • GitHub info: PR 156

Version 0.0.2 (2022-06-15)#

  • Made into a Python module.

  • GitHub info: PR 64

Version 0.0.1 (2022-04-04)#

  • Initial version.