A spatio-temporal methodology for real-time biosurveillance

Quality Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 465-477

  Fricker, Ronald D Jr ^a   Chang, Joseph T ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosurveillance; Bioterrorism; Kernel density estimation; Kolmogorov Smirnov statistic; Public health; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

BIOSURVEILLANCE; BIOTERRORISM; EARLY EVENT DETECTION; INDIVIDUAL OBSERVATIONS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV STATISTIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 52349093473     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: 15324222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982110802334096     Document Type: Article

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