Applying cusum-based methods for the detection of outbreaks of Ross River virus disease in Western Australia

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Watkins, Rochelle E ^a   Eagleson, Serryn ^a   Veenendaal, Bert ^a   Wright, Graeme ^a   Plant, Aileen J ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ROSS RIVER ALPHA VIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROSS RIVER VIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 52149111823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-37     Document Type: Article

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