Automated time series forecasting for biosurveillance

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4202-4218

  Burkom, Howard S ^a   Murphy, Sean Patrick ^a   Shmueli, Galit ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosurveillance; Exponential smoothing; Forecasting; Preconditioning; Regression; Time series

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PROCESS MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FORECASTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548637081     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2835     Document Type: Article

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