Nowcasting influenza epidemics using non-homogeneous hidden Markov models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2643-2660

  Nunes, Baltazar ^a   Natário, Isabel ^b   Lucilia Carvalho M ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; Influenza; Nowcasting; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BIOSTATISTICS; EPIDEMICS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879118927     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5670     Document Type: Article

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