hus {SMPracticals}

Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome

Description

Annual numbers of cases of 'diarrhoea-associated haemolytic uraemic syndrome' treated in clinics in Birmingham and Newcastle from 1970–1989.

Usage

data(hus)

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 3 variables.

year

a numeric vector

birmingham

Number of cases treated in Birmingham

newcastle

Number of cases treated in Newcastle

Source

Henderson, R. and Matthews, J. N. S. (1993) An investigation of changepoints in the annual number of cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Applied Statistics, 42, 461–471.

References

Davison, A. C. (2003) Statistical Models. Cambridge University Press. Page 142.

Examples

data(hus)
plot(hus$year,hus$birmingham,ylab="Annual number of cases",type="s")