Nowcasting the Number of New Symptomatic Cases During Infectious Disease Outbreaks Using Constrained P-spline Smoothing

Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 737-745

  Van De Kassteele, Jan ^a   Eilers, Paul H C ^b   Wallinga, Jacco ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymmetric penalty; Bivariate smoothing; Constrained P splines; Incidence monitoring; Infectious disease outbreaks; Nowcasting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTINGENCY TABLE; EPIDEMIC; GROWTH CURVE; HISTOGRAM; MEASLES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM; CHILD; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTOR;

CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEASLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85071069353     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001050     Document Type: Article

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