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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 SerflingÃs 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 … -
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 …