R/ebola_sierraleone_2014.R

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#' Ebola in Sierra Leone, 2014
#'
#' These data consist of confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola haemorrhagic
#' fever in Sierra Leone from 2014 to 2015.
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#' @format {
#' A data frame with 11,903 rows and 8 columns
#' \describe{
#'   \item{id}{Case ID}
#'   \item{age}{Age}
#'   \item{sex}{Sex}
#'   \item{status}{Case definition (confirmed or suspected)}
#'   \item{date_of_onset}{Date of symptom onset}
#'   \item{date_of_sample}{Date of sample testing}
#'   \item{district}{District}
#'   \item{chiefdom}{Chiefdom}
#' }
#'
#' The linelist data reported by Fang et al. (2016) cover the period 2014-05-18
#' to 2015-09-13, over which time there were 8538 confirmed cases and 3545
#' suspected cases.
#'
#' }
#' @rdname ebola_sierraleone_2014
#'
#' @author Data from Fang et al. (2016) Transfer to R and documentation by Finlay
#'   Campbell (\email{finlaycampbell93@@gmail.com}).
#'
#' @source Fang et al. (2016)
#'
#' @references
#'
#' L. Fang, et al. 2016. Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone. Proceedings of the
#' National Academy of Sciences, 113 (16) 4488-4493; DOI:
#' 10.1073/pnas.1518587113
#'
#' @examples
#' ## show first few cases
#' head(ebola_sierraleone_2014)
#'
"ebola_sierraleone_2014"