sars_canada_2003 {outbreaks} | R Documentation |
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Canada, 2003
Description
These data comprise of new cases of SARS in Canada in 2003. These data are from Chapter 9 of De Vries et al. (1996).
Usage
sars_canada_2003
Format
A data frame with 110 rows and 5 columns
- date
Date
- cases_travel
New cases attributed to travel
- cases_household
New cases attributed to household transmission
- cases_healthcare
New cases in a healthcare setting
- cases_other
Other new cases
Author(s)
Data from De Vries et al. (2006), based on original data from Health Canada. Transfer to R and documentation by Simon Frost (sdwfrost@gmail.com).
Source
De Vries et al. (2006)
References
G. De Vries, T. Hillen, M. Lewis, J. Mueller, and B. Schoenfisch. 2006. A Course in Mathematical Biology: Quantitative Modeling with Mathematical and Computational Methods. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Examples
## show first few cases
head(sars_canada_2003)
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