Development, adaptation, and assessment of alerting algorithms for biosurveillance

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 335-342

  Burkom, Howard S ^a  

^a Natl Secty Technology Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSURVEILLANCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; PATHOGENS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 4444220896     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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