spanish_flu_df: Daily 1918 Flu Deaths

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Daily 1918 Flu Deaths

Description

This dataset, spanish_flu_df, is a data frame containing daily mortality data from the 1918 flu pandemic covering the period from 1918-09-01 through 1918-12-31 in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia.

Usage

data(spanish_flu_df)

Format

A data frame with 122 observations and 4 variables:

Date

Date of recorded mortality

Indiana

Integer vector representing daily flu-related deaths in Indiana

Kansas

Integer vector representing daily flu-related deaths in Kansas

Philadelphia

Integer vector representing daily flu-related deaths in Philadelphia

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'spanish_flu_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 incidental package version 0.1

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