malaria_africa_ts: Prevalence Rate data of Malaria in Africa
In njtierney/yahtsee: Yet Another Hierachical Time Series Extension and Expansion

Description Usage Format Details

Data containing information on malaria prevalence in Africa. Data was extracted using the malariaAtlas package. If using this data, please cite:

1	data(malaria_africa_ts)

An object of class tbl_ts (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 1046 rows and 15 columns.

Pfeffer, D.A., Lucas, T.C., May, D., Harris, J., Rozier, J., Twohig, K.A., Dalrymple, U., Guerra, C.A., Moyes, C.L., Thorn, M., Nguyen, M., et al. 2018. malariaAtlas: an R interface to global malariometric data hosted by the Malaria Atlas Project. Malaria Journal, 17(1), p.352.

Format: a 'tsibble' data frame with 1,117 observations on the following 15 variables.

who_region: A character of WHO region, the largest region size.
who_subregion: A character of WHO subregion, the second largest region size.
country: A character of countries, the smallest region size.
country_id: A three letter character code adhering to the standard, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3. For more detail see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3.
continent_id: A character of continent name
year: integer of year data recorded
month: integer of month data recorded
date: date class of year+month recorded. Defaults to day = 1 as day was not provided.
lower_age: lower age range
upper_age: upper age range
examined: integer, number of people examined
positive: numeric, number of positive cases
pr: positive rate - given from positive/examined
species: Mosquito species
method: method of measurement