measles.weser {surveillance}R Documentation

Measles epidemics in Lower Saxony in 2001-2002

Description

Weekly counts of new measles cases for each "Kreis" of the administrative district "Weser-Ems" in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 2001 and 2002. All in all there are 15 "Kreise", two "Kreise" have been omitted

Usage

data(measles.weser)

Format

An multivariate object of class disProg with 104 observations for each one of the 15 Kreise.

week
Number of week.
observed
Matrix with number of counts in the corresponding week and Kreis.
state
Boolean whether there was an outbreak – dummy not implemented.
neighbourhood
Neighbourhood matrix.
populationFrac
Population fractions.

Examples

data(measles.weser)
plot(measles.weser, as.one=FALSE) 

[Package surveillance version 1.0-3 Index]