measlesDE: Measles in the 16 states of Germany
Description
Weekly number of measles cases in the 16 states
(Bundeslaender) of Germany for years 2005 to 2007.encoding
latin1format
An sts
object containing $156\times 16$
observations starting from week 1 in 2005.
The population
slot contains the population fractions
of each state at 31.12.2006, obtained from the Federal Statistical
Office of Germany.source
Robert Koch-Institut: SurvStat:
http://www3.rki.de/SurvStat;
Queried on 14 October 2009.References
Herzog, S.A., Paul, M. and Held, L. (2011) Heterogeneity in vaccination
coverage explains the size and occurrence of measles epidemics in
German surveillance data. Epidemiology and Infection, 139, 505--515.Examples
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