Incorporating retrospective clustering into a prospective cusum methodology for anthrax: Evaluating the effects of disease expectation

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-21

  Kracalik, Ian ^a   Lukhnova, Larissa ^b   Aikimbayev, Alim ^c   Pazilov, Yerlan ^b   Temiralyeva, Gulnara ^b   Blackburn, Jason K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Masgut Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^c Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Station   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Anthrax; Baseline expectation; Cumulative sum; GeoSurveillance; Space time clustering

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BASELINE EXPECTATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CUMULATIVE SUM; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSURVEILLANCE; KAZAKHSTAN; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; KAZAKHSTAN; LIVESTOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650523985     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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