Hagelloch: Hagelloch measles data.
Description
Epidemic data derived from a measles outbreak in the town of
Hagelloch, Germany in 1861. 188 individuals were infected over the
course of the epidemic. Not all fields in the original data set have been
included in this package; the fields included here for each affected
individual are: NodeID (a numerical label); Putative Parent (node most
likely to have caused the infection, as recorded in the data); Exposure
time (time at which the individual contracted measles -- assigned NA
since these times are not given in the data); Infective time (time at which
the individual became infective -- these times were not directly given in
the data, but were assumed to be one day prior to the onset of prodromes);
and Removal time (time at which the individual ceased being infective) --
these times were not directly given in the data, but were assumed to be
three days after the appearance of rash (or death, if sooner). All times are
given in days.format
Array consisting of 5 columns, in the format
expected by epibayesmcmc. Column 1
gives the identity of the individual and column 2 gives
the identity of the putative parent node.
Columns 3, 4, and 5 give the exposure, infective,
and removal times for the individual.source
Thanks to Peter Neal for providing this data set. This data was
originally collected by Pfeilsticker:
Pfeilsticker, A. (1863). Beitrage zur Pathologie der Masern mit besonderer
Berucksichtigung der statistischen Verhaltnisse, M.D. thesis, Eberhard-Karls
Universitat, Tubingen.References
Neal, P. and Roberts, G. (2004). Statistical inference and model selection for the 1861
Hagelloch measles epidemic. Biostatistics 5 (2), 249.