R/wildboar_tb.R

In romunov/AED: Package Accompanying 'Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R'

#' Vicente et al. (2006) analyzed the distribution on tuberculosis-like lesions in wild boar (\emph{Sus scrofa}) for
#' potential importance of persistence of tuberculosis in south central Spain. Data came from harvested animals.
#' Tuberculosis (Tb) is a zoonosis that can jump from non-human to human animal, which makes the disease interesting to
#' study for its economical and public health impacts.
#' 
#' The dataset comes with variables:
#' \itemize{
#'     \item Tb: An integer denoting presence (1) or absence (0) of tuberculosis in an animal
#'     \item sex: Sex of the animal harvested
#'     \item age_class: Age class of the animal based on tooth eruption patterns. Boars less than 7 months old were
#'     classified as piglets, boars between 7 and 12 months were classified as weaners, those between 12 and 24 months
#'     as juveniles, and those more than 2 years old as adults.
#'     \item length_ct: Head-body length of the animal in cm, where CT is Spanish abbreviation for \emph{cabeza-tronco}.
#' }
#' 
#' @name WildBoarTb
#' @title Wild boar tuberculosis-like lesions dataset
#' @description Presence or absence of tuberculosis in wild boar (\emph{Sus scrofa}) from south central Spain
#' @docType data
#' @usage data("WildBoarTb")
#' @references Vicente J, Höfle U, Garrido JM, Fernández-de-Mera IG, Juste R, Barralb M, Gortazar C. 2006. Wild boar
#' and red deer display high prevalences of tuberculosis-like lesions in Spain. Veterinary research 37: 107-119.
#' @references Zuur et al. 2009. Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R. Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-87457-9.
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