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A beginner-friendly copy of the 1940 Oswego County church-supper outbreak line list supplied by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with Epi Info. The 75 interview records are unchanged. Variable names use snake case, Y/N values are labelled Yes/No, and variable labels have been added.

Usage

outbreak_data

Format

A data frame with 75 rows and 21 variables. It contains participant age and sex, illness status and onset information, meal time, and indicators for foods and drinks consumed. ill is the outcome; food variables such as vanilla_ice_cream can be used as exposures.

Source

CDC Epi Info teaching data, documented in the Epi Info 6 User's Guide. The source material is a US Government work available without charge. CDC does not endorse gtstats. See the CDC agency materials policy.

Examples

epi_table(
  outbreak_data,
  outcomes = ill,
  by = vanilla_ice_cream,
  event = "Yes",
  measure = "attack_rate",
  p_value = TRUE,
  effects = "all"
)