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  • Characterizing Repeated Outbreak Patterns in Influenza Time Series

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    In some influenza seasons, morbidity and mortality closely follow the expected seasonal variation. In these years, approaches such as Serflingís model and seasonal-based syndromic outbreak detectors, in use in EARS, work well. In other years,… read more
    … BACKGROUND Time-frequency analysis techniques allow us to de- compose influenza time series to isolate and study these …
  • Detecting Coherent Structures in Syndromic Time Series Using Wavelets

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    Temporally localized outbreaks occur in the presence of a complex background, greatly complicating both retrospective and real-time detection. Numerous techniques have been proposed for adjusting thresholds to account for this variable background.… read more
    … series measurement. See [2] for details. Retrospective de- tection is performed in a fixed window, while real- time …