This dataset, campy_infections_ts, is a time series object containing the number of cases of campylobacter infections in the north of the province Quebec (Canada) in four week intervals from January 1990 to the end of October 2000. It contains 13 observations per year and 140 observations in total.
Usage
data(campy_infections_ts)
Format
A time series object of class ts
with 140 observations, frequency 13,
starting from 1990 to 2000 (end of October).
Source
Data taken from the tscount package version 1.4.3. Original study: Ferland, R., Latour, A. and Oraichi, D. (2006) Integer-valued GARCH process. Journal of Time Series Analysis 27(6), 923–942.
Details
The dataset name has been kept as 'campy_infections_ts' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the infectiousR package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'ts' indicates that the dataset is a time series object. The original content has not been modified in any way.