Example CSV Files

[ghost]

Hi John,

First of all, congratulations for this great project.

I'd like to try code, however I don't have the donor/recipient CSV files. Do you think you could include any sample files?

Thank you

[JohnDickerson]

Hello! Since that data is private (it's coming from the match runs performed biweekly by the real UNOS exchange), I will not be putting them online. I am working on a general generator that mimics the distributions we've seen in the real exchange, and that should be online in the next couple of weeks.

In the meantime, you can use some of the other compatibility graph generators in kpd.structure.generator, like SaidmanPoolGenerator or SparseUNOSSaidmanPoolGenerator. These generate objects of the same graph type as UNOSGenerator, so when the new distributional UNOS generator is online, you'll be able to drop it into whatever code you have written very easily. The Saidman-type generators listed above generate pools in accordance with a 2006 paper by Saidman et al. called "Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation by Matching for Two- and Three-Way Exchanges." You can find an open copy of that paper here.