Predicting Asthma Prevalence by Linking Social Media Data and Traditional Surveys

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 669, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 75-92

  Dai, Hongying ^a   Lee, Brian R ^a   Hao, Jianqiang ^b  

^a Children's Mercy Hospital   (United States)

^b First National Bank of Omaha   (United States)

Author keywords

ACS; asthma; BRFSS; data linkage; SMM; social media monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007021319     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716216678399     Document Type: Article

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