Real-time influenza forecasts during the 2012-2013 season

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Shaman, Jeffrey ^a   Karspeck, Alicia ^b   Yang, Wan ^a   Tamerius, James ^c   Lipsitch, Marc ^d  

^a Department of Environmental Health Sciences Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFLUENZA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL TIME; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RELIABILITY; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; UNITED STATES; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890239936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3837     Document Type: Article

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