Monitoring count time series in R: Aberration detection in public health surveillance

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Salmon, Maëlle ^a   Schumacher, Dirk ^a   Höhle, Michael ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Outbreak detection; R; Statistical process control; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978906802     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v070.i10     Document Type: Article

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