Automated outbreak detection: A quantitative retrospective analysis

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-110

  Stern, L ^a   Lightfoot, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTESTINE INFECTION; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPING; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 0033065916     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898001939     Document Type: Article

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