Prediction of influenza outbreaks by integrating Wikipedia article access logs and Google flu trend data

2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bardak, Batuhan ^a   Tan, Mehmet ^a  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; FORECASTING; INTERNET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEB SERVICES;

ACCESS LOG; INTERNET SEARCHES; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NOWCASTING; TWO SOURCES; WIKIPEDIA; WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84962788689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2015.7367640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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