Malaria prevalence in children in Gambia. The data are constructed from the gambia
dataframe in the geoR
package (Diggle and Ribeiro, 2007) by village aggregation.
data(malaria)
A data frame with the 65 observations with the following variables
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 |
measure of vegetation green-ness in the immediate vicinity of the village. |
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). |
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.