majete: Majete malaria prevalence data

In geosample: Construction of Geostatistical Sampling Designs

Description

This data-set relates to malaria prevalence study conduted in Majete (Chikwawa), southern Malawi. The variables are as follows:

• rdt: Rapid diagnostic test result; 0 = negative, 1 = positive.

• age: Age of the individual in months.

• quintile: Wealth quintile; ranging from 1 = poor to 5 = well to do.

• itn: Insecticide treated bed-net usage; 0 = no, 1 = yes.

• elev: Elevation; height above sea level in meters.

• ndvi: Normalised difference vegetation index (greenness).

• agecat: Age category; 1 = child, 2 = adult.

• geometry: Point or household locations (UTM).

Usage

data("majete")

Format

A data frame with 747 features and 7 variables

References

Kabaghe A N, Chipeta M G, McCann R S, Phiri K S, Van Vugt M, Takken W, Diggle P J, and Terlouw D J. (2017). Adaptive geostatistical sampling enables efficient identification of malaria hotspots in repeated cross-sectional surveys in rural Malawi, PLoS One 12(2) pp. e0172266

geosample documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:15 a.m.