stsNewport {surveillance}

Salmonella Newport cases in Germany 2001-2015

Description

Reported number of cases of the Salmonella Newport serovar in Germany 2001-2015, by date of disease onset. The slot control contains a matrix reportingTriangle$n with the reporting triangle as described in Salmon et al. (2015).

Usage

data(stsNewport)

Format

A sts object.

References

Salmon, M., Schumacher, D., Stark, K., Höhle, M. (2015): Bayesian outbreak detection in the presence of reporting delays. Biometrical Journal, 57 (6), 1051-1067.