An integrated approach for fusion of environmental and human health data for disease surveillance

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 470-479

  Burkom, Howard S ^a   Ramac Thomas, Liane ^a   Babin, Steven ^a   Holtry, Rekha ^a   Mnatsakanyan, Zaruhi ^a   Yund, Cynthia ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Data fusion; Drinking water surveillance; Public health surveillance

Indexed keywords

BREVETOXIN; DRINKING WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MARINE TOXINS; OXOCINS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 79851475813     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3976     Document Type: Article

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