Finding Leading Indicators for Disease Outbreaks: Filtering, Cross-correlation, and Caveats

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-85

  Bloom, Ronald M ^a   Buckeridge, David L ^b,c   Cheng, Karen E ^a  

^a APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BIOTERRORISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 33845431379     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2178     Document Type: Article

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