Results from the centers for disease control and prevention's predict the 2013-2014 Influenza Season Challenge

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Biggerstaff, Matthew ^a   Alper, David ^b   Dredze, Mark ^c   Fox, Spencer ^d   Fung, Isaac Chun Hai ^e   Hickmann, Kyle S ^f,g   Lewis, Bryan ^h,o   Rosenfeld, Roni ⁱ   Shaman, Jeffrey ^j   Tsou, Ming Hsiang ^k   Velardi, Paola ^l   Vespignani, Alessandro ^m   Finelli, Lyn ^a   Chandra, Priyadarshini ^b   Kaup, Hemchandra ^b   Krishnan, Ramesh ^b   Madhavan, Satish ^b   Markar, Ashirwad ^b   Pashley, Bryanne ^b   Paul, Michael ^c   Meyers, Lauren Ancel ^d   Eggo, Rosalind ^d   Henderson, Jette ^d   Ramakrishnan, Anurekha ^d   Scott, James ^d   Singh, Bismark ^d   Srinivasan, Ravi ^d   Bakach, Iurii ^e   Hao, Yi ^e   Schaible, Braydon J ^e   Sexton, Jessica K ^e   Del Valle, Sara Y ^f   Deshpande, Alina ^f   Fairchild, Geoffrey ^f   Generous, Nicholas ^f   Priedhorsky, Reid ^f   Hickman, Kyle S ^f,g   Hyman, James M ^f,g   Brooks, Logan ⁱ   Farrow, David ⁱ   Hyun, Sangwon ⁱ   Tibshirani, Ryan J ⁱ   Yang, Wan ^j   Allen, Christopher ^k   Aslam, Anoshé ^k   Nagel, Anna ^k   Stilo, Giovanni ^l   Basagni, Stefano ^m   Zhang, Qian ^m   Perra, Nicola ^m   Chakraborty, Prithwish ⁿ   Butler, Patrick ⁿ   Khadivi, Pejman ⁿ   Ramakrishnan, Naren ⁿ   Chen, Jiangzhuo ^o   Barrett, Chris ^o   Bisset, Keith ^o   Eubank, Stephen ^o   Anil Kumar, V S ^o   Laskowski, Kathy ^o   Lum, Kristian ^o   Marathe, Madhav ^o   Aman, Susan ^p,q   Brownstein, John S ^p,q   Goldstein, Ed ^r   Lipsitch, Marc ^r   Mekaru, Sumiko R ^p   Nsoesie, Elaine O ^o,p,q   Gesualdo, Francesco ^s   Tozzi, Alberto E ^s   Broniatowski, David ^t   Karspeck, Alicia ^u   Tse, Zion Tsz Ho ^v   Ying, Yuchen ^v   Gambhir, Manoj ^w   Scarpino, Sam ^x   more..

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Everyday Health   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^k SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^m NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ State University   (United States)

^o VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^p BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^q HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^r HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^s BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^t GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^w MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^x SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Forecasting; Influenza; Modeling; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; FORECASTING; HUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; TREND STUDY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84979000412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1669-x     Document Type: Article

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