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  • Application of Nonlinear Data Analysis Methods to Locating Disease Clusters

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    Objective Cluster detection with a mechanism for reducing false alarms and increasing sensitivity.
    … epidemiologists and health departments. However, nearly all clustering algorithms currently used for this … . Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 26(6): 1481-1496, 1997. [2]Lorenz, EN Atmospheric … by naturally occurring analogues. J. Atmosphere Sci 26 (1969). [3]Viboud et al Prediction of the spread of …
  • Minimizing False Alarms in Syndromic Surveillance

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    This paper describes a method of avoiding false alerts in automated syndromic surveillance algorithms which monitor the temporal relationship between a particular monitored syndrome (the ìtargetî) in relationship to other reference healthcare data… read more
    … is to use suitably-normalized syndromic counts (i.e., ratios or proportions) instead of the individual … is not obvious. One recent approach [2] has been to use all possible pair-wise ratios in an epidemiological network …