outbreaks (version 1.1.0)

measles.hagelloch.1861: Measles in Hagelloch, Germany, 1861

Description

These data comprise of 188 cases of measles among children in the German city of Hagelloch, 1861. The data were originally collected by Dr. Albert Pfeilsticker (1863) and augmented and re-analysed by Dr. Heike Oesterle (1992).

Usage

measles.hagelloch.1861

Format

A data frame with 188 rows and 12 columns

Source

Pfeilsticker (1863) and Oesterle (1992).

References

Pfeilsticker, A. 1863. Beiträge zur Pathologie der Masern mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der statistischen Verhältnisse, M.D. Thesis, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Available as http://www.archive.org/details/beitrgezurpatho00pfeigoog.

Oesterle, H. 1992. Statistische Reanalyse einer Masernepidemie 1861 in Hagelloch, M.D. Thesis, Eberhard-Karls-Universitäat Tübingen.

Neal, P. J. and Roberts, G. O. 2004. Statistical inference and model selection for the 1861 Hagelloch measles epidemic, Biostatistics 5(2):249-261.

Höhle M. 2007. surveillance: An R package for the monitoring of infectious diseases. Computational Statistics, 22:571-582.

Examples

## show first few cases
head(measles.hagelloch.1861)