varicella_sim_berlin: Simulated Varicella outbreak
In outbreaks: A Collection of Disease Outbreak Data

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Simulated Varicella outbreak

1	varicella_sim_berlin

A data frame with 500 rows and 13 columns

sex: The gender of the simulated persons
ethnicity: Simulated ethnical origin
firstname: First names of the simulated persons
lastname: Last names of the simulated persons
age: Age of the simulated persons
center1: Name of the first center where the simulated persons stay
arrival1: Date of arrival at the first center
leave1: Date of departure at the first center
center2: Name of the second center where the simulated persons stay
arrival2: Date of arrival at the second center
leave2: Date of departure at the second center
onset: Date of onset of the disease
disease: Name of the disease

This dataset is useful to compute incidence rates.

This dataset simulates an outbreak of varicella in german centers for foreigners. It is loosely based on the situation in 2015, when the numbers of foreigners seeking asylum exeded the available places in the center for foreigners. Varicella was the most frequent disease in these centers at that time. comparable with kindergartens and other shelters.

Description of infectious diseases in people seeking asylum in Germany in 2017 of Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Gesundheitsmonitoring/Gesundheitsberichterstattung/GesundAZ/Content/A/Asylsuchende/Asylsuchende.html

The dataset was created by the package outbreakcreator https://github.com/jakobschumacher/outbreakcreator/.

Data simulated by Jakob Schumacher (jakob.schumacher@web.de).