Disease surveillance using a hidden Markov model

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

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

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ALGORITHMS; HEPATITIS A; MARKOV CHAINS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; ROC CURVE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 69549083203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-9-39     Document Type: Article

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