Fast Bayesian scan statistics for multivariate event detection and visualization

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 455-469

  Neill, Daniel B ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Event detection; Scan statistics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION RESEARCH; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUGH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NAUSEA; PENNSYLVANIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; VOMITING;

EID: 79851488592     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3881     Document Type: Article

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