ebola_cases_df: Time Series Counts of Ebola Cases

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Time Series Counts of Ebola Cases

Description

This dataset, ebola_cases_df, is a data frame containing daily time series counts of new individuals exhibiting clinical signs of Ebola virus disease, as well as the number of daily removals (e.g., deaths or recoveries), during the 1995 Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Usage

data(ebola_cases_df)

Format

A data frame with 192 observations and 3 variables:

time

Integer indicating the number of days since the beginning of observation

clin_signs

Integer indicating the number of new individuals with clinical signs of Ebola

removals

Integer indicating the number of new removals (e.g., deaths or recoveries)

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'ebola_cases_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 SimBIID package version 0.2.2

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