Using Twitter to Measure Public Discussion of Diseases: A Case Study
BackgroundTwitter is increasingly used to estimate disease prevalence, but such measurements can be biased, due to both biased sampling and inherent ambiguity of natural language. ObjectiveWe characterized the extent of these biases and how they vary with disease....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2015-06-01
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Series: | JMIR Public Health and Surveillance |
Online Access: | http://publichealth.jmir.org/2015/1/e6/ |