Alerting Algorithms for Biosurveillance

Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 143-192

  Burkom, Howard ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alerting algorithms; Algorithmic processing; Biosurveillance; Denominator problem; Infected population

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889445681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470131886.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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