R Dataset / Package DAAG / dengue
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the dengue data set which pertains to Dengue prevalence, by administrative region. The dengue data set is found in the DAAG R package. You can load the dengue data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("dengue"). This will load the data into a variable called dengue. If R says the dengue data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("DAAG") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the dengue R data set. The size of this file is about 250,766 bytes.
Dengue prevalence, by administrative region
Description
Data record, for each of 2000 administrative regions, whether or not dengue was recorded at any time between 1961 and 1990.
Usage
data(dengue)
Format
A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 13 variables.
- humid
-
Average vapour density: 1961-1990
- humid90
-
90th percentile of
humid
- temp
-
Average temperature: 1961-1990
- temp90
-
90th percentile of
temp
- h10pix
-
maximum of
humid
, within a 10 pixel radius - h10pix90
-
maximum of
humid90
, within a 10 pixel radius - trees
-
Percent tree cover, from satellite data
- trees90
-
90th percentile of
trees
- NoYes
-
Was dengue observed? (1=yes)
- Xmin
-
minimum longitude
- Xmax
-
maximum longitude
- Ymin
-
minimum latitude
- Ymax
-
maximum latitude
Details
This is derived from a data set in which the climate and tree cover information were given for each half degree of latitude by half degreee of longitude pixel. The variable NoYes
was given by administrative region. The climate data and tree cover data given here are 50th or 90th percentiles, where percetiles were calculates across pixels for an administrative region.
Source
Simon Hales, Environmental Research New Zealand Ltd.
References
Hales, S., de Wet, N., Maindonald, J. and Woodward, A. 2002. Potential effect of population and climate change global distribution of dengue fever: an empirical model. The Lancet 2002; 360: 830-34.
Examples
str(dengue) glm(NoYes ~ humid, data=dengue, family=binomial) glm(NoYes ~ humid90, data=dengue, family=binomial)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.