Real-time epidemic forecasting: challenges and opportunities

Health Security

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 268-275

  Desai, Angel N ^a   Kraemer, Moritz U G ^a   Bhatia, Sangeeta ^a   Cori, Anne ^a   Nouvellet, Pierre ^a   Herringer, Mark ^a   Cohn, Emily L ^a   Carrion, Malwina ^a   Brownstein, John S ^a   Madoff, Lawrence C ^a   Lassmann, Britta ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease modeling; Epidemic management response; Infectious diseases; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; FORECASTING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 85071233923     PISSN: 23265094     EISSN: 23265108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hs.2019.0022     Document Type: Article

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