A Bayesian spatio-temporal method for disease outbreak detection

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 462-471

  Jiang, Xia ^a   Cooper, Gregory F ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN LEARNING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; RELIABILITY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PENNSYLVANIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 77958165608     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.000356     Document Type: Article

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