Statistical methods for the prospective detection of infectious disease outbreaks: A review

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-82

  Unkel, Steffen ^a   Farrington, C Paddy ^a   Garthwaite, Paul H ^a   Robertson, Chris ^b   Andrews, Nick ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosurveillance; Clusters; Control chart; Epidemics; Infectious diseases; Outbreak; Prospective detection; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855970335     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00714.x     Document Type: Review

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