Epidemic features affecting the performance of outbreak detection algorithms

• Main Authors: Kuang Jie (Author), Yang Wei (Author), Zhou Ding (Author), Li Zhong (Author), Lan Ya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<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...