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-`{epiparameter}` is an `R` package that contains a library of epidemiological parameters for infectious diseases and a set classes and helper functions to be able to work with the data. It also includes functions to extract and convert parameters from reported summary statistics.
+`{epiparameter}` is an `R` package that contains a library of epidemiological parameters for infectious diseases and a set of classes and helper functions to work with the data. It also includes functions to extract and convert parameters from reported summary statistics.
 
 `{epiparameter}` is developed at the [Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases](https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-mathematical-modelling-infectious-diseases) at the [London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine](https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/) as part of [Epiverse-TRACE](https://data.org/initiatives/epiverse/).