R/lab.weekly.update-data.r

In nandadorea/vetsyn: Tools for Syndromic Surveillance Implementation

#' @name lab.weekly.update
#' @title Daily submissions to an animal diagnostic laboratory, recorded with
#' the dates in the ISOweek format, rather than date format
#' @description This dataset is similar to "lab.weekly", but only the last month
#' of events are included, plus one new week, in order to reflect the update of 
#' information week by week, which constitutes a common scenario when implementing
#' syndromic surveillance. The actual 
#' dates have been altered and the animal species is not given, in order to 
#' comply with the institute's privacy policies. Further, all test information
#' has been removed and only the final syndromic classification is given. Only
#' the minimal nuber of columns needed to demonstrate the functionality of the package
#' have been kept. These are: a column with the syndromic classification, a column 
#' specifying the date of submission, and one or multiple columns used to 
#' identify unique cases. In this particular dataset a case is defined as a unique 
#' combination of date, herdID and submissionID. HerdID and SubmissionID in this 
#' dataset have been altered to ensure privacy.
#' @docType data
#' @usage lab.weekly.updae
#' @format a \code{data.frame} .
#' @source package \code{vetsyn}
#' @author National Veterinary Institute of Sweden (SVA), 2013
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