In silico Surveillance: Evaluating outbreak detection with simulation models

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lewis, Bryan ^a   Eubank, Stephen ^b   Abrams, Allyson M ^c   Kleinman, Ken ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Evaluation; Influenza like illness; Outbreak detection; Simulation; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BOSTON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84872564329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-12     Document Type: Article

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