gcmr (version 0.7.0)

malaria: Gambia Malaria Data

Description

Malaria prevalence in children in Gambia. The data are constructed from gambia data frame in geoR package (Diggle and Ribeiro, 2007) by village aggregation.

Usage

data(malaria)

format

A data frame with the 65 observations with the following variables ll{ x x-coordinate of the village (UTM). y y-coordinate of the village (UTM). cases number of sampled children with malaria in each village. size number of sampled children in each village. age mean age of the sampled children in each village. netuse frequency of sampled children who regularly sleep under a bed-net in each village. treated frequency of sampled children whose bed-net is treated. green satellite-derived measure of the green-ness of vegetation in the immediate vicinity of the village (arbitrary units). phc indicator variable denoting the presence (1) or absence (0) of a health center in the village. area indicator of the village area (Diggle et al., 2002). }

source

Diggle, P.J. and Ribeiro Jr, P.J. (2007). Model Based Geostatistics. New York: Springer.

References

Thomson, M., Connor, S., D Alessandro, U., Rowlingson, B., Diggle, P., Cresswell, M. and Greenwood, B. (1999). Predicting malaria infection in Gambian children from satellite data and bednet use surveys: the importance of spatial correlation in the interpretation of results. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 61, 2--8.

Diggle, P., Moyeed, R., Rowlingson, B. and Thomson, M. (2002). Childhood malaria in The Gambia: a case-study in model-based geostatistics, Applied Statistics 51, 493--506.

Examples

data(malaria)