Surveillance line list data provided by the New York City (NYC) Health Department at https://github.com/nychealth/mpox_nowcast_eval, to accompany a nowcasting performance evaluation (doi: 10.2196/56495). Patients with a confirmed or probable mpox diagnosis or illness onset from July 8 through September 30, 2022 were included. The original dataset was aggregated and pre-processed as described in the note below.
Usage
data(mpoxdat)Details
This is line-list data with each row representing case counts. The columns are as follows:
dx_date: is the specimen collection date of the first positive mpox laboratory result,dx_report_date: is the date the report of first positive mpox laboratory result was received by the NYC Health Department,n: the case count of individuals within those dates.race: the race corresponding to those cases. Race was randomly assigned with probabilities "Non-Hispanic White" = 0.309, "Hispanic" = 0.283, "Black" = 0.202, "Asian" = 0.156, and "Other" = 0.05 which follow what has been reported for the US Census.
Note
While dx_date, dx_report_date and n correspond to actual observed data the race was
constructed exclusively for the examples of this package. Its a synthetic (simulated) variable
and does not correspond to any reality.
References
ROHRER, Rebecca, et al. Nowcasting to Monitor Real-Time Mpox Trends During the 2022 Outbreak in New York City: Evaluation Using Reportable Disease Data Stratified by Race or Ethnicity. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2025, vol. 17, no 1, p. e56495.
Examples
data(mpoxdat)