Monitoring epidemiologic surveillance data using hidden Markov models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3463-3478

  Le Strat, Yann ^a,b   Carrat, Fabrice ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; POLIOMYELITIS; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033619993     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991230)18:24<3463::AID-SIM409>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Conference Paper

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