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ross: Weekly deaths from bubonic plague in Bombay in 1905--06

Description

Kermack and McCormick (1927) provided data on the number of plague deaths per week in Bombay in 1905--06 (Bombay is the former name for the Indian coastal city Mumbai. It is the capital of Maharashtra and is one of the largest cities in the world).

Format

A data frame with 32 observations on the following 2 variables.

Week

a numeric vector

CumulativeDeaths

a numeric vector

References

Kermack, W.O. and McCormick, W.G. (1927) A contribution to the mathematical theory of epidemics. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, 115, 700--721.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(ross)
str(ross) ; plot(CumulativeDeaths ~ Week, data=ross, type='b')

# }