us_contagious_diseases {dslabs}

Contagious disease data for US states

Description

Yearly counts for Hepatitis A, Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, Polio, Rubella, and Smallpox for US states. Original data courtesy of Tycho Project (http://www.tycho.pitt.edu/).

Usage

us_contagious_diseases

Format

An object of class "data.frame".

Details

• disease. A factor containing disease names.

• state. A factor containing state names.

• year.

• weeks_reporting. Number of weeks counts were reported that year.

• count. Total number of reported cases.

• population. State population, interpolated for non-census years.

Source

Tycho Project

References

Willem G. van Panhuis, John Grefenstette, Su Yon Jung, Nian Shong Chok, Anne Cross, Heather Eng, Bruce Y Lee, Vladimir Zadorozhny, Shawn Brown, Derek Cummings, Donald S. Burke. Contagious Diseases in the United States from 1888 to the present. NEJM 2013; 369(22): 2152-2158.

Examples

head(us_contagious_diseases)