Performance in Biosurveillance
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This chapter proposes an enhancement to currently used algorithms for 7 monitoring daily counts of pre-diagnostic data. Rather than use a single algo8 rithm or apply multiple algorithms simultaneously, our approach is based on 9 ensembles of algorithms. The ensembles lead to better performance in terms 10 of higher true alert rates for a given false alert rate. Combinations can be 11 employed at the data preprocessing step and/or at the monitoring step. We 12 discuss the advantages of such an approach and illustrate its usefulness using 13 authentic modern biosurveillance data. 14
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