# R: Bi-weekly measles incidence in London from 1944-65.

meas {epimdr} | R Documentation

## Bi-weekly measles incidence in London from 1944-65.

### Description

A dataset containing the biweekly incidence of measles in London from 1944 to 1965

### Usage

    meas

### Format

A data frame with 546 rows and 5 variables:

year

  year

week

  week of the year

time

  time

London

  incidence

B

  Biweekly births

### Details

Birth numbers are annual, so in the data set, this number is evenly distributed across the 26 bi-weeks of each year.

### Source

Bjornstad et al. (2002) Endemic and epidemic dynamics of measles: Estimating transmission rates and their scaling using a time series SIR model. Ecol Monogr 72: 169-184. doi.org/10.2307/3100023.

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