Using Bayes' rule to define the value of evidence from syndromic surveillance.

In this work we propose the adoption of a statistical framework used in the evaluation of forensic evidence as a tool for evaluating and presenting circumstantial "evidence" of a disease outbreak from syndromic surveillance. The basic idea is to exploit the predicted distributions of repor...

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Main Authors: Mats Gunnar Andersson, Céline Faverjon, Flavie Vial, Loïc Legrand, Agnès Leblond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4218722?pdf=render