Evaluation of sliding baseline methods for spatial estimation for cluster detection in the biosurveillance system

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Xing, Jian ^a   Burkom, Howard ^b   Moniz, Linda ^b   Edgerton, James ^c   Leuze, Michael ^d   Tokars, Jerome ^a  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Edge Space Systems   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

BIOSURVEILLANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS;

EID: 68349121415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-8-45     Document Type: Article

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