How does improved forecasting benefit detection? An application to biosurveillance

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 467-483

  Lotze, Thomas H ^a   Shmueli, Galit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Biosurveillance; Control charts; Sensitivity; Specificity; Timeliness

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649729664     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

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