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Data Set for CHAPTERS 1 and 2


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The cumulative number of deaths (second column) in Bombay from a plague spread by rats during the period December 1905 to July 1906. First column is in weeks. Data extracted from "A contribution to the mathematical theory of epidemics" by W.O. Kermack and A.G. McKemdrick, Proc. Roy. Soc., Volume 115A, 1927, 700-721.


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1st col 2nd col
1 4
2 14
3 29
4 47
5 68
6 99
7 150
8 203
9 300
10 425
11 608
12 900
13 1290
14 1738
15 2379
16 3150
17 3851
18 4547
19 5414
20 6339
21 7140
22 7720
23 8129
24 8480
25 8690
26 8803
27 8868
28 8920
29 8971
30 9010
31 9043