Disease Surveillance, Case Study
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چکیده
Event Detection Identifying patterns of interest in large temporal datasets Spatial Scan Statistic A method for identifying hotspots in spatial data, widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance Scoring Function An objective function that measures the anomalousness of a subset of data LTSS Linear-time subset scanning Time to Detect Evaluation metric; time delay before detecting an event Overlap Evaluation metric; accuracy of detected subsets of data Detection Power Evaluation metric; proportion of detected events
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