| m4494 {epimdr2} | R Documentation |
Measles in England and Wales 1944-1994.
Description
The weekly reported cases of measles in each of the 354 cities and villages between 1944 and 1994.
Usage
m4494
Format
A list with four items:
- measles
A matrix with 354 rows and 2661 columns. Rows represents community and columns represent week.
- ps
A matrix with 354 rows and 41 columns. Rows represents community and columns represent population size for each of the years in the data set.
- longlat
A matrix with 354 rows and two columns. Rows represents community and columns longitude and latitude.
- year
A vector of length 354 that represents time for each week as yearly decimals.
- coverage
A vector of length 2661 that represents reported annual vaccine coverage for each week.
Source
Grenfell, B.T., Bjornstad, O.N., & Kappey, J. 2001. Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics. Nature 414: 716-723. <doi:10.1038/414716a>
Lau, M.S.Y., Becker, A.D, Korevaar, H.M., Caudron, Q., Shaw, D.J., Metcalf, C.J.E., Bjornstad, O.N. and Grenfell, B.T. 2020. A competing-risks model explains hierarchical spatial coupling of measles epidemics en route to national elimination. Nature Ecology & Evolution. <doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1186-6>