DAAG (version 0.76)

dengue: Dengue prevalence, by administrative region

Description

Data record, for each of 2000 administrative regions, whether or not dengue was recorded at any time between 1961 and 1990.

Usage

data(dengue)

source

Simon Hales, Environmental Research New Zealand Ltd.

Examples

str(dengue) glm(NoYes ~ humid, data=dengue, family=binomial) glm(NoYes ~ humid90, data=dengue, family=binomial)

Details

This is derived from a data set in which the climate and tree cover information were given for each half degree of latitude by half degreee of longitude pixel. The variable NoYes was given by administrative region. The climate data and tree cover data given here are 50th or 90th percentiles, where percetiles were calculates across pixels for an administrative region.

References

Hales, S., de Wet, N., Maindonald, J. and Woodward, A. 2002. Potential effect of population and climate change global distribution of dengue fever: an empirical model. The Lancet 2002; 360: 830-34.