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Bayesian Methods for Syndromic Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance needs to be (1) transparent, (2) actionable, and (3) flexible. Traditional frequentist approaches to syndromic surveillance, such as cusum charts and scan statistics, tend to fail on all three criteria. First, the validity of… read more… the prob- lems associated with alpha levels and multiple com- parisons, and make better use of prior information. The … analogous way). The mean of the Poisson is the sum of the back- ground rate for time period t and the product of an …