Review of methods for space-time disease surveillance

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 105-116

  Robertson, Colin ^a   Nelson, Trisalyn A ^a   MacNab, Ying C ^b,d   Lawson, Andrew B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cluster; Disease surveillance; Model based; Scan statistics; Space time

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953287860     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2009.12.001     Document Type: Review

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