Early Detection of Meningitis Outbreaks: Application of Limited-baseline Data

Background: There is no published study evaluating the performance of cumulative sum (CUSUM) algorithm on meningitis data with limited baseline period. This study aimed to evaluate the CUSUM performance in timely detection of 707 semi-synthetic outbreak days. Methods: Simulated outbreaks were gene...

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Main Authors: Manoochehr KARAMI, Maryam GHALANDARI, Jalal POOROLAJAL, Javad FARADMAL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2017-10-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Public Health
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Online Access:https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/11246