ross {primer}

Weekly deaths from bubonic plague in Bombay in 1905–06

Description

Kermack and McCormick (1927) provided data on the number of plague deaths per week in Bombay in 1905–06 (Bombay is the former name for the Indian coastal city Mumbai. It is the capital of Maharashtra and is one of the largest cities in the world).

Format

A data frame with 32 observations on the following 2 variables.

Week

a numeric vector

CumulativeDeaths

a numeric vector

Source

Data provided kindly by S.P. Ellner (Cornell University)

References

Kermack, W.O. and McCormick, W.G. (1927) A contribution to the mathematical theory of epidemics. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, 115, 700–721.

Examples

data(ross)
str(ross) ; plot(CumulativeDeaths ~ Week, data=ross, type='b')