Visual analytics for epidemiologists: Understanding the interactions between age, time, and disease with multi-panel graphs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Chui, Kenneth K H ^a   Wenger, Julia B ^b   Cohen, Steven A ^a   Naumova, Elena N ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFLUENZA; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLOTS AND CURVES; SALMONELLOSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD SAFETY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SALMONELLA; SEASON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD SAFETY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951927820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014683     Document Type: Article

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