Automated real time constant-specificity surveillance for disease outbreaks
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Automated real time constant-specificity surveillance for disease outbreaks
BACKGROUND For real time surveillance, detection of abnormal disease patterns is based on a difference between patterns observed, and those predicted by models of historical data. The usefulness of outbreak detection strategies depends on their specificity; the false alarm rate affects the interpretation of alarms. RESULTS We evaluate the specificity of five traditional models: autoregressive...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-15