us_contagious_diseases: Contagious disease data for US states

us_contagious_diseasesR Documentation

Contagious disease data for US states

Description

Yearly counts for Hepatitis A, Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, Polio, Rubella, and Smallpox for US states. Original data courtesy of Tycho Project (http://www.tycho.pitt.edu/).

Usage

us_contagious_diseases

Format

An object of class "data.frame".

Details

  • disease. A factor containing disease names.

  • state. A factor containing state names.

  • year.

  • weeks_reporting. Number of weeks counts were reported that year.

  • count. Total number of reported cases.

  • population. State population, interpolated for non-census years.

Source

Tycho Project

References

Willem G. van Panhuis, John Grefenstette, Su Yon Jung, Nian Shong Chok, Anne Cross, Heather Eng, Bruce Y Lee, Vladimir Zadorozhny, Shawn Brown, Derek Cummings, Donald S. Burke. Contagious Diseases in the United States from 1888 to the present. NEJM 2013; 369(22): 2152-2158.

Examples

head(us_contagious_diseases)

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