contagious_diseases_df: Contagious Disease Data for US States

In infectiousR: Access Infectious and Epidemiological Data via 'disease.sh API'

Contagious Disease Data for US States

Description

This dataset, contagious_diseases_df, is a data frame containing yearly counts for Hepatitis A, Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, Polio, Rubella, and Smallpox for US states. The original data is courtesy of the Tycho Project.

Usage

data(contagious_diseases_df)

Format

A data frame with 16,065 observations and 6 variables:

disease

Factor with 7 levels indicating the disease type

state

Factor with 51 levels indicating the US state

year

Numeric vector indicating the year of observation

weeks_reporting

Numeric vector indicating the number of weeks reported

count

Numeric vector indicating the number of cases reported

population

Numeric vector indicating the population of the state in that year

Details

The dataset name has been kept as contagious_diseases_df to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the infectiousR 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 dslabs package version 0.8.0. Original data courtesy of the Tycho Project (http://www.tycho.pitt.edu/).

infectiousR documentation built on June 16, 2025, 5:09 p.m.