Alert threshold algorithms and malaria epidemic detection

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1220-1226

  Teklehaimanot, Hailay Desta ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a   Teklehaimanot, Awash ^b   Lipsitch, Marc ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERT THRESHOLD ALGORITHM; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 3042696414     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1007.030722     Document Type: Article

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