Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Canada, 2003

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

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

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.

Author

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).

Examples

## show first few cases
head(sars_canada_2003)
#>         date cases_travel cases_household cases_healthcare cases_other
#> 1 2003-02-23            1               0                0           0
#> 2 2003-02-24            0               0                0           0
#> 3 2003-02-25            0               0                0           0
#> 4 2003-02-26            0               1                0           0
#> 5 2003-02-27            0               0                0           0
#> 6 2003-02-28            1               0                0           0