Development and evaluation of a data-adaptive alerting algorithm for univariate temporal biosurveillance data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 3226-3248

  Elbert, Yevgeniy ^a   Burkom, Howard S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alerting algorithms; Biosurveillance; Exponential smoothing; Forecasting; Time series

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HOLT WINTERS GENERALIZED SMOOTHING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNDROME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOSTATISTICS; BIOSURVEILLANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449432969     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3708     Document Type: Article

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