Adaptive Threshold Method for Monitoring Rates in Public Health Surveillance

Adaptive Threshold Method for Monitoring Rates in Public Health Surveillance

We examine some of the methodologies implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâ s (CDC) BioSense program. The program uses data from hospitals and public health departments to detect outbreaks using the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS). The EARS method W2 allows one to m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gan, Linmin
Other Authors: Statistics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
Negative binomial distribution
Outbreak detection
Recurrence interval
Exponentially weighted moving average chart
Biosurveillance
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37721
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042010-230757/

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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37721
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042010-230757/

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