Mining aggregates of over-the-counter products for syndromic surveillance

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-266

  Cami, Aurel ^a   Wallstrom, Garrick L ^a   Fowlkes, Ashley L ^b   Panozzo, Cathy A ^b   Hogan, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosurveillance; Linear regression; Outbreak detection; Time series aggregation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES;

BIOSURVEILLANCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EARLY DETECTIONS; EPIDEMIC PROCESSES; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; NOVEL ALGORITHMS; OUTBREAK DETECTION; OUTBREAK DETECTIONS; PRODUCT CATEGORIES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCES; TIME SERIES AGGREGATION;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 57249088958     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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