R/ebola1976.R

In cfr: Estimate Disease Severity and Case Ascertainment

#' Ebola 1976 outbreak case data
#'
#' An example epidemic outbreak dataset for use with the `cfr` package.
#' This dataset comes from the first Ebola outbreak in Zaire in 1976 as analysed
#' in Camacho et al. (2014).
#'
#' @format ## `ebola1976`
#' A `<data.frame>` with 73 rows and 3 columns:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{date}{Calendar date}
#'   \item{cases}{Number of cases reported}
#'   \item{deaths}{Number of deaths reported}
#' }
#' @source \doi{10.1016/j.epidem.2014.09.003}
#' @references
#' Camacho, A., Kucharski, A. J., Funk, S., Breman, J., Piot, P., &
#' Edmunds, W. J. (2014). Potential for large outbreaks of Ebola virus disease.
#' Epidemics, 9, 70–78. \doi{10.1016/j.epidem.2014.09.003}
"ebola1976"