measlesDE {surveillance} | R Documentation |
Weekly number of measles cases in the 16 states (Bundeslaender) of Germany for years 2005 to 2007.
data(measlesDE)
An sts
object containing 156 x 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.
Robert Koch-Institut: SurvStat: https://survstat.rki.de/; Queried on 14 October 2009.
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.
data(measlesDE) plot(measlesDE)