MERS-CoV chain size data used by Blumberg et al. (2014)

Blumberg et al. (2014) provide a convenient table of MERS-CoV cases in the Arabian Peninsula occurring before August 8, 2013. The dataset is divided into cases occurring before June 1, 2013 and cases occurring after. The data originate from Cauchemez et al. (2014).

data(mers_pre_june)

data(mers_post_june)

Format

Vector of all chain sizes.

Source

Data retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004452

References

Blumberg S, Funk S, Pulliam JRC (2014). "Detecting differential transmissibilities that affect the size of self-Limited outbreaks." PLOS Pathogens 10(10): e1004452.

Cauchemez S, Fraser C, Van Kerkhove MD, Donnelly CA, Riley S, et al. (2014). "Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus: quantification of the extent of the epidemic, surveillance biases, and transmissibility." The Lancet infectious diseases 14: 50–56.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
data(mers_pre_june)
data(mers_post_june)

model <- compile_nbbp_homogenous()
fit_nbbp_homogenous_bayes(
  mers_pre_june,
  model
)

fit_nbbp_homogenous_bayes(
  mers_post_june,
  model
)
} # }