British farm carcass submissions data

Data on British animal farms submissions to AHVLA. British farms are able to submit samples to AHVLA if cause of death for an animal cannot be determined and private veterinary surgeon decides to submit them, unless there is notifiable disease suspected then such a submission is not required.

This data set contains information about such farms. Only submissions that are included in this data frame are submissions of carcasses i.e. submissions of blood samples etc. are excluded.

Usage

data("carcassubmission")

Format

Data frame with 1,858 rows and 4 columns.

TOTAL_SUB

Number of submissions of animal carcasses.

log_size

Numerical value equal to logarithm of size of farm.

log_distance

Numerical value equal to logarithm of distance to nearest AHVLA center.

C_TYPE

Factor describing type of activity on farm that animals are used for. Either Dairy or Beef

References

This data set and its description was provided in publication: Böhning, D., Vidal Diez, A., Lerdsuwansri, R., Viwatwongkasem, C., and Arnold, M. (2013). "A generalization of Chao's estimator for covariate information". Biometrics, 69(4), 1033-1042. doi:10.1111/biom.12082