Use of an artificial neural network for detecting excess deaths due to cholera in Ceará, Brazil;Rede neural artificial para detecção de sobremortalidade atribuível à cólera no Ceará

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 351-357

  Penna, Maria Lúcia F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cholera, epidemiology; Epidemiologic surveillance; Forecasting; Neural networks (computer); Time series

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BRAZIL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLERA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEARNING; MORTALITY; OBSERVATION; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAINING;

EID: 4444346998     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102004000300003     Document Type: Article

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