An improved algorithm for outbreak detection in multiple surveillance systems

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1206-1222

  Noufaily, Angela ^a   Enki, Doyo G ^a   Farrington, Paddy ^a   Garthwaite, Paul ^a   Andrews, Nick ^b   Charlett, André ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Negative binomial regression; Outbreak; Outlier; Quasi Poisson regression; Robustness; Statistical surveillance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CHLAMYDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; HAEMOPHILUS; INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LACTOCOCCUS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MICROSPORUM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA GIVE; SALMONELLA MINNESOTA; SALMONELLA MONTEVIDEO; SALMONELLA NEWPORT; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; TREND STUDY; TRICHOPHYTON;

ALGORITHMS; BIOSTATISTICS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WALES;

EID: 84874982440     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5595     Document Type: Article

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