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  • 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
    … data sets, including hospital emergency department visits coded for respiratory infection and ambulatory care visits coded for several syndromes. Here we illustrate the … by small p-values. 0 10 20 30 40 50 0 500 1000 co un ts 20 40 60 10 20 30 40 50 5 10 15 20 sc al e (d ay s) …
  • 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
    … data sets, including hospital emer- gency department visits coded for respiratory infec- tion and ambulatory care visits coded for several syndromes. In those cases, Poisson …