This data set gives the spatial locations and reported times of food-and-mouth disease in north Cumbria (UK), 2001. It is of no scientific value, as it deliberately excludes confidential information on farms at risk in the study-region. It is included in the package purely as an illustrative example.
data(fmd)A matrix containing (x,y,t) coordinates of the 648 observations.
Diggle, P., Rowlingson, B. and Su, T. (2005). Point process methodology for on-line spatio-temporal disease surveillance. Environmetrics, 16, 423--34.
northcumbria for boundaries of the county of north Cumbria.