fatalities: Weekly Number of Fatalities in Austria

In bamlss: Bayesian Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape (and Beyond)

Weekly Number of Fatalities in Austria

Description

This data set includes weekly fatalities in Austria from 2000 to 2020. The data is taken from the Eurostat data base.

Usage

data("fatalities")

Format

The fatalities data contains the following variables:

num:

Integer, the number of fatalities.

year:

Integer, the corresponding year fatalities are recorded.

week:

Integer, the corresponding week fatalities are recorded.

Details

Previous versions of the package employed a slightly smaller version of the data set. Since version 1.2-6 of the package the data also includes the last seven weeks from 2020 (2020-47 to 2020-53) plus small corrections for the earlier weeks in 2020 and the addition of two previously missing weeks (2004-42 and 2014-20).

References

Eurostat Database (2020). Population and social conditions, demography and migration, mortality, weekly deaths, deaths by week and NUTS 3 region, Austria https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/

Examples

data("fatalities")
plot(num ~ week, data = fatalities)

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