meningo.age {surveillance}R Documentation

Meningococcal infections in France 1985-1995

Description

Monthly counts of meningococcal infections in France 1985-1995. Here, the data is split into 4 age groups (<1, 1-5, 5-20, >20).

Usage

data(meningo.age)

Format

An multivariate object of class disProg with 156 observations in each one of 4 age groups.

week
Number of month.
observed
Matrix with number of counts in the corresponding month and age group.
state
Boolean whether there was an outbreak – dummy not implemented.
neighbourhood
Neighbourhood matrix, all age groups are adjacent.
populationFrac
Population fractions.

Source

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Examples

data(meningo.age)
plot(meningo.age, title="Meningococcal infections in France 1985-95")
plot(meningo.age, as.one=FALSE)

[Package surveillance version 0.9-6 Index]