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Simulated Varicella outbreak
Description
Simulated Varicella outbreak
Usage
varicella_sim_berlin
Format
A data frame with 500 rows and 13 columns
- sex
The gender of the simulated persons
- ethnicity
Simulated ethnical origin
- firstname
First names of the simulated persons
- lastname
Last names of the simulated persons
- age
Age of the simulated persons
- center1
Name of the first center where the simulated persons stay
- arrival1
Date of arrival at the first center
- leave1
Date of departure at the first center
- center2
Name of the second center where the simulated persons stay
- arrival2
Date of arrival at the second center
- leave2
Date of departure at the second center
- onset
Date of onset of the disease
- disease
Name of the disease
Background
This dataset is useful to compute incidence rates.
This dataset simulates an outbreak of varicella in german centers for foreigners. It is loosely based on the situation in 2015, when the numbers of foreigners seeking asylum exeded the available places in the center for foreigners. Varicella was the most frequent disease in these centers at that time. comparable with kindergartens and other shelters.
Description of infectious diseases in people seeking asylum in Germany in 2017 of Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Gesundheitsmonitoring/Gesundheitsberichterstattung/GesundAZ/Content/A/Asylsuchende/Asylsuchende.html
The dataset was created by the package outbreakcreator https://github.com/jakobschumacher/outbreakcreator/.
Author(s)
Data simulated by Jakob Schumacher (jakob.schumacher@web.de).
Examples
head(varicella_sim_berlin)