Poliocases


Poliomyelitis is a crippling disease with dramatically visible impact on the patient. Over the last fifty years the disease has been brought under control by the use of oral vaccine. It is of considerable interest to identify trend, seasonality and other features of data on incidence of polio.


datasets

Collection of datasets as prepared by Profs. A.P. Gore, S.A. Paranjape, and M.B. Kulkarni of Department of Statistics, Poona University, India. With their permission, first letter of their names forms the name of this package, the package has been built by me and made available for the benefit of R users. This collection requires a rich class of models and can be a very useful building block for a beginner.

Prabhanjan Tattar

100 Data Sets for Statistics Education

Poliocases function

A data frame with 180 observations on the following 3 variables.
  <dl>
    <dt><code>Month</code></dt><dd>Month</dd> <dt><code>Year</code></dt><dd>Year</dd> <dt><code>Polio_Cases</code></dt><dd>Number of polio cases</dd> </dl> 

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Poliocases: The number of polio cases

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