ha: Hepatitis A in Berlin

In surveillance: Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Monitoring of Epidemic Phenomena

Hepatitis A in Berlin

Description

Number of Hepatitis A cases among adult (age>18) males in Berlin, 2001-2006. An increase is seen during 2006.

Usage

data("ha")
data("ha.sts")

Format

ha is a disProg object containing 290\times 12 observations starting from week 1 in 2001 to week 30 in 2006. ha.sts was generated from ha via the converter function disProg2sts and includes a map of Berlin's districts.

Source

Robert Koch-Institut: SurvStat: https://survstat.rki.de/; Queried on 25 August 2006.

Robert Koch Institut, Epidemiologisches Bulletin 33/2006, p.290.

Examples

## deprecated "disProg" object
data("ha")
ha
plot(aggregate(ha))

## new-style "sts" object
data("ha.sts")
ha.sts
plot(ha.sts, type = observed ~ time)  # = plot(aggregate(ha.sts, by = "unit"))
plot(ha.sts, type = observed ~ unit, labels = TRUE)

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