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measlesUK: Measles in the United Kingdom

Description

Measles case data from various cities and towns in England and Wales during the pre-vaccine era.

Arguments

Value

a ‘data.frame’ of the 40 largest cities and towns in the UK and Wales, their latitude, longitude and bi-weekly measles case counts, population and birthrates.

Details

Data includes bi-weekly case counts as well as births and population from 40 cities and towns.

References

Dalziel, Benjamin D. et al. (2016) Persistent chaos of measles epidemics in the prevaccination United States caused by a small change in seasonal transmission patterns. PLoS Computational Biology, 12(2), e1004655. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.5061/dryad.r4q34")

See Also

Other datasets: city_data_UK