Influenza epidemics detection based on Google search queries

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 157 LNEE, Issue VOL. 2, 2012, Pages 371-376

  Liu, Fan ^a   Lv, Benfu ^a   Peng, Geng ^b   Li, Xiuting ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SEARCH; HYBRID MODEL; SEARCH QUERIES;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERNET; MONITORING; NETWORK SECURITY;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84865619232     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28798-5_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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