polio {astsa}R Documentation

Poliomyelitis cases in US

Description

Monthly time series of poliomyelitis cases reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control for the years 1970 to 1983, 168 observations.

Format

The format is: Time-Series [1:168] from 1970 to 1984: 0 1 0 0 1 3 9 2 3 5 ...

Details

The data were originally modelled by Zeger (1988) “A Regression Model for Time Series of Counts,” Biometrika, 75, 822-835.

Source

Data taken from the gamlss.data package; see https://www.gamlss.com/.

References

You can find demonstrations of astsa capabilities at FUN WITH ASTSA.

The most recent version of the package can be found at https://github.com/nickpoison/astsa/.

In addition, the News and ChangeLog files are at https://github.com/nickpoison/astsa/blob/master/NEWS.md.

The webpages for the texts and some help on using R for time series analysis can be found at https://nickpoison.github.io/.

Examples

tsplot(polio, type='s')

[Package astsa version 2.1 Index]