sars_canada_2003: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Canada, 2003

sars_canada_2003R Documentation

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Canada, 2003

Description

These data comprise of new cases of SARS in Canada in 2003. These data are from Chapter 9 of De Vries et al. (1996).

Usage

sars_canada_2003

Format

A data frame with 110 rows and 5 columns

date

Date

cases_travel

New cases attributed to travel

cases_household

New cases attributed to household transmission

cases_healthcare

New cases in a healthcare setting

cases_other

Other new cases

Author(s)

Data from De Vries et al. (2006), based on original data from Health Canada. Transfer to R and documentation by Simon Frost (sdwfrost@gmail.com).

Source

De Vries et al. (2006)

References

G. De Vries, T. Hillen, M. Lewis, J. Mueller, and B. Schoenfisch. 2006. A Course in Mathematical Biology: Quantitative Modeling with Mathematical and Computational Methods. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Examples

## show first few cases
head(sars_canada_2003)


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