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geosample (version 0.2.1)

majete: Majete malaria prevalence data

Description

This data-set relates to malaria prevalence study conduted in Majete (Chikwawa), southern Malawi. The variables are as follows:

  • rdt: Rapid diagnostic test result; 0 = negative, 1 = positive.

  • age: Age of the individual in months.

  • quintile: Wealth quintile; ranging from 1 = poor to 5 = well to do.

  • itn: Insecticide treated bed-net usage; 0 = no, 1 = yes.

  • elev: Elevation; height above sea level in meters.

  • ndvi: Normalised difference vegetation index (greenness).

  • agecat: Age category; 1 = child, 2 = adult.

  • geometry: Point or household locations (UTM).

Usage

data("majete")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 747 features and 7 variables

References

Kabaghe A N, Chipeta M G, McCann R S, Phiri K S, Van Vugt M, Takken W, Diggle P J, and Terlouw D J. (2017). Adaptive geostatistical sampling enables efficient identification of malaria hotspots in repeated cross-sectional surveys in rural Malawi, PLoS One 12(2) pp. e0172266