Measles in Hagelloch, Germany, 1861 — measles_hagelloch

These data comprise of 188 cases of measles among children in the German city of Hagelloch, 1861. The data were originally collected by Dr. Albert Pfeilsticker (1863) and augmented and re-analysed by Dr. Heike Oesterle (1992).

measles_hagelloch_1861

Format

A data frame with 188 rows and 12 columns

case_ID: Case ID number
infector: Number of patient who is the putative source of infection
date_of_prodrome: Date of onset of prodromal symptoms
date_of_rash: Date of onset of rash
date_of_death: Date of death (NA implies recovered)
age: Age in years (fractions ignored)
gender: Gender of the individual (factor: f, m)
family_ID: Family ID number
class: School class (factor: 0, preschool; 1, 1st class; 2, 2nd class )
complications: Complications (factor: no, yes)
x_loc: x coordinate of house (in metres). Scaling in metres is obtained by multiplying the original coordinates by 2.5 (see details in Neal and Roberts (2004))
y_loc: y coordinate of house (in metres). See x_loc above.

Source

Pfeilsticker (1863) and Oesterle (1992).

References

Pfeilsticker, A. 1863. Beiträge zur Pathologie der Masern mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der statistischen Verhältnisse, M.D. Thesis, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Available as http://www.archive.org/details/beitrgezurpatho00pfeigoog.

Oesterle, H. 1992. Statistische Reanalyse einer Masernepidemie 1861 in Hagelloch, M.D. Thesis, Eberhard-Karls-Universitäat Tübingen.

Neal, P. J. and Roberts, G. O. 2004. Statistical inference and model selection for the 1861 Hagelloch measles epidemic, Biostatistics 5(2):249-261.

Höhle M. 2007. surveillance: An R package for the monitoring of infectious diseases. Computational Statistics, 22:571-582.

Meyer, S., Held, L., & Höhle, M. 2017. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Epidemic Phenomena Using the R Package surveillance. Journal of Statistical Software, 77(11), 1 - 55.

Author

This version of the data was formatted from hagelloch.df in the surveillance package, which in turn was provided by Niels Becker via Peter Neal. Formatting to fit in with the other datasets in the outbreaks package by Simon Frost (sdwfrost@gmail.com).

Examples

## show first few cases
head(measles_hagelloch_1861)
#>   case_ID infector date_of_prodrome date_of_rash date_of_death age gender
#> 1       1       45       1861-11-21   1861-11-25          <NA>   7      f
#> 2       2       45       1861-11-23   1861-11-27          <NA>   6      f
#> 3       3      172       1861-11-28   1861-12-02          <NA>   4      f
#> 4       4      180       1861-11-27   1861-11-28          <NA>  13      m
#> 5       5       45       1861-11-22   1861-11-27          <NA>   8      f
#> 6       6      180       1861-11-26   1861-11-29          <NA>  12      m
#>   family_ID class complications x_loc y_loc
#> 1        41     1           yes 142.5 100.0
#> 2        41     1           yes 142.5 100.0
#> 3        41     0           yes 142.5 100.0
#> 4        61     2           yes 165.0 102.5
#> 5        42     1           yes 145.0 120.0
#> 6        42     2           yes 145.0 120.0