A review and discussion of prospective statistical surveillance in public health

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-21

  Sonesson, Christian ^a   Bock, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Detection; Expected delay; Incidence rate; Monitoring; Public health surveillance; Sequential methods; Spatial cluster

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044438482     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00256     Document Type: Review

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