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Bi-weekly measles incidence in London from 1944-65.
Description
A dataset containing the biweekly incidence of measles in London from 1944 to 1965
Usage
meas
Format
A data frame with 546 rows and 5 variables:
- year
year
- week
week of the year
- time
time
- London
incidence
- B
Biweekly births
Details
Birth numbers are annual, so in the data set, this number is evenly distributed across the 26 bi-weeks of each year.
Source
Bjornstad et al. (2002) Endemic and epidemic dynamics of measles: Estimating transmission rates and their scaling using a time series SIR model. Ecological Monographs 72: 169-184. doi.org/10.2307/3100023.
[Package epimdr version 0.6-5 Index]