Fictional Ebola Virus Disease data simulating properties from the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014
linelist_raw.RdFictional Ebola Virus Disease data simulating properties from the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014
Source
This data was originally added to the outbreaks package, extensive edits have been made for teaching purposes. The data was originally simulated to match properties of the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014-2015 (see outbreaks package documentation for details).
The original dataset can be accessed using outbreaks::ebola_sim. Within this package the original dataset is linelist_raw.xlsx.
This is version 1.0.
This dataset is English.
This dataset is licensed under MIT
Details
This is fictional case-linelist which contains de-indentified individual level data on clinical outcome, demographics and region.
References
WHO Ebola Response Team. 2014. Ebola virus disease in West Africa–the first 9 months of the epidemic and forward projections. The New England journal of medicine 371:1481–1495 doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1411100