norodata {DSAIDE}

Cases of norovirus during an outbreak

Description

Norovirus case data from an outbreak among children on a school trip

Usage

norodata

Format

A data frame with these variables:

Date

Day of outbreak, all in December 2007, numeric

Cases

New cases for the specified date, numeric

Details

The data are from Kuo 2009 Wien Klin Woch: "A non-foodborne norovirus outbreak among school children during a skiing holiday, Austria, 2007" Specifically, the data comes from figure 1 of this article. The total number of susceptibles was 284.

See this article and citations therein for more details on the data. Note that only a subset of the data is present here and the data are meant for illustrative purposes only. For a proper re-analysis of these data, use the source mentioned above.