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  • A Space Time Permutation Scan Statistic with Irregular Shape for Disease Outbreak Detection

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    This paper describes a methodology for detecting irregular space-time cluster using the space time permutation scan statistic. The methodology includes sequential Monte Carlo simulation and distribution approximation to estimate the error type I.
    … and time ap- proaches were tested. Results show that all methods provide outbreak detection but the arbitrary in … Permutation Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak De- tection, PLoS Medicine. 2005; 2:216-224. [2] Abrams A, … 25(5) 723-742. [5] Takahashi K, Kulldorff M, Tango T and Yie K, A Flexible Space-Time Scan Statistic for Disease …
  • Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection

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    To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
    … in a variety of settings, including hospital emergency de- partments and ambulatory clinics resulting in multi- ple …