TBD_MAUP

This is a repository that provides all necessary code to recreate the analysis in a publication currently submitted to the Journal of Medical Entomology. The code and data sources to recreate the analysis are modified to use publicly available data. Specifically:

Tick sampling data is aggregated to the county level, thus, kriging interpolations use county centroids rather than site locations.
Case data uses counts of anaplasmosis aggregated to the county level, which are then randomly placed within the county.

The data used in the published manuscript are protected data and may be made available upon reasonable request.

Other notes:

Scripts are numbered according to what must be run prior to running the simulation script (Script 8).

Certain analyses do not require all prior scripts to be run.

Script 5, which loads the Gridded Population of the World (GPW) dataset, requires the user to manually download the dataset via a USGS login, thus, sourcing Script 5 will not work without first changing the file path to the dataset.

All Figures are recreatable using the code within the "Figure_creation" folder. Code in this folder outputs figures to the "Figures" folder.