A Bayesian network model for spatial event surveillance

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 224-239

  Jiang, Xia ^a   Neill, Daniel B ^b   Cooper, Gregory F ^a  

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

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Event surveillance; Outbreak detection; Spatial cluster detection; Spatial event surveillance

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN NETWORK MODELS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; EMERGING PATTERNS; NETWORK-BASED; NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OUTBREAK DETECTION; PENNSYLVANIA; SPATIAL CLUSTER; SPATIAL CLUSTER DETECTION; SPATIAL EVENTS; SPATIAL SCAN STATISTICS; THEORY AND METHODS;

APARTMENT HOUSES; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; DATA PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; MONITORING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 73649124986     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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