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.