Statistical issues and challenges associated with rapid detection of bio-terrorist attacks

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 513-529

  Fienberg, Stephen E ^a   Shmueli, Galit ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Detection systems; Privacy; Record linkage; ROC tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MARKETING; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONITORING; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRORISM;

BIOTERRORISM; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICS;

EID: 13844277022     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2032     Document Type: Article

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