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A Nonparametric Scan Statistic for Multivariate Disease Surveillance
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We present a new method for multivariate outbreak detection, the ìnonparametric scan statisticî (NPSS). NPSS enables fast and accurate detection of emerging space-time clusters using multiple disparate data streams, including nontraditional data… read more… into five Allegheny County datasets: respiratory ED visits, three streams of OTC data (cough/cold, antifever, … Communications in Sta- tistics: Theory and Methods, 1997, 26(6): 1481-1496. [3] Kulldorff M, Prospective time-periodic …