Regional Level Influenza Study with Geo-Tagged Twitter Data

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Feng ^a   Wang, Haiyan ^a   Xu, Kuai ^a   Raymond, Ross ^a   Chon, Jaime ^a   Fuller, Shaun ^a   Debruyn, Anton ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geo tagged twitter stream; Influenza; Partial differential equation modeling; Regional level

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION MODELING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84977079153     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-016-0545-y     Document Type: Article

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