meas {epimdr2}

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:10.2307/3100023>