Some methodological issues in biosurveillance.
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This paper briefly summarizes a short course I gave at the 12th Biennial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Symposium held in Decatur, Georgia on April 6, 2009. The goal of this short course was to discuss various methodological issues of biosurveillance detection algorithms, with a focus on the issues related to developing, evaluating, and implementing such algorithms.
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We greatly appreciate the opportunity to comment on this interesting and thought-provoking paper. Dr Fricker has brought up many important issues with respect to biosurveillance, primarily in the very challenging context of syndromic surveillance and other types of public health surveillance with many input data streams. Similar to Dr Fricker, we have backgrounds in industrial statistical proce...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Statistics in medicine
دوره 30 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011