zika2015 {EpiLPS}

R Documentation

Data on the 2015 Zika virus disease in Colombia

Description

A list containing incidence data for the 2015 Zika disease in Girardot (Colombia) from October 2015 to January 2016, a vector of dates and a discrete serial interval distribution.

Usage

data(zika2015)

Format

A list with three components:

incidence

An incidence time series of length 93.

dates

A vector of dates in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.

si

A vector of probabilities corresponding to the serial interval distribution with a mean of 7 days and standard deviation of 1.5 days.

Source

https://cran.r-project.org/package=outbreaks

References

Rojas, D. P. et al. (2016). The epidemiology and transmissibility of Zika virus in Girardot and San Andres island, Colombia, September 2015 to January 2016. Eurosurveillance, 21(28), 30283.

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