Forecasting seasonal influenza fusing digital indicators and a mechanistic disease model

26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 311-319

  Zhang, Qian ^a   Perra, Nicola ^a,b   Perrotta, Daniela ^c   Tizzoni, Michele ^c   Paolotti, Daniela ^c   Vespignani, Alessandro ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational epidemiology; Influenza modeling; Real time forecasting; Social media

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGIES; INFLUENZA MODELS; INITIALIZATION STAGE; MECHANISTIC MODELING; MULTIPLE DATA STREAMS; REAL-TIME FORECASTING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 85049376683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3038912.3052678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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