rvyoung {pvLRT}

FDA rotavirus vaccine dataset with 346 adverse events observed among young (infant – 1 year) individuals

Description

A vaccine-Adverse event (AE) count dataset (contingency table) obtained from the FDA VAERS database for the year 1999

Usage

rvyoung

Format

An object of class matrix (inherits from array) with 346 rows and 2 columns.

Details

Data are stored in the forms of contingency table, with the vaccines listed across the columns and the 346 AEs presented across the rows. Each cell in the contingency table represents the total report counts from young individuals with age < 1 year associated with that vaccine/AE pair and detected in the FDA VAERS database for the year 1999.

The dataset contains two columns – one for the rotavirus vaccine, and another for other (37 vaccines combined).

Source

https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html