Epidemic features affecting the performance of outbreak detection algorithms

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Outbreak detection algorithms play an important role in effective automated surveillance. Although many algorithms have been designed to improve the performance of outbreak detection, few published studies have examined how epidemic...

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Main Authors: Kuang Jie, Yang Wei, Zhou Ding, Li Zhong, Lan Ya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-06-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/418