ecoli_infections_df: E. coli Infections Time Series

In DigestiveDataSets: A Curated Collection of Digestive System and Gastrointestinal Disease Datasets

E. coli Infections Time Series

Description

This dataset, ecoli_infections_df, is a data frame containing the weekly number of reported disease cases caused by Escherichia coli in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) from January 2001 to May 2013, excluding cases of EHEC and HUS.

Usage

data(ecoli_infections_df)

Format

A data frame with 646 observations and 3 variables:

year

Numeric value indicating the year of observation

week

Numeric value indicating the week of observation

cases

Numeric value indicating the number of reported E. coli cases

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'ecoli_infections_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the DigestiveDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.

Source

Data taken from the tscount package version 1.4.3.

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