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Identifying Categories of Over-the-Counter Products with Superior Outbreak Detection Performance
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A significant research topic in biosurveillance is how to group individual events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) products—into counts of “similar” events. For OTC products, the goal is… read more… events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) … clusters OTC products based on how well they ‘explain’ ED visits for influenzalike illness (ILI) can find categories … events—such as single emer- gency department (ED) visits and sales of over-the- counter healthcare (OTC) … -
Estimation And Validation of An Outbreak Simulator
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In previous work, we described a non-disease-specific outbreak simulator for the evaluation of outbreak detection algorithms. This Template-Driven Simulator generates disease patterns using user-defined template functions.… read more… anthrax cases. The home census block group and time of visit to an emergency department are available for each … anthrax cases. The home census block group and time of visit to an emergency de- partment are available for each … The Bayesian aerosol release detector. Stat Med 2007. 26(29): 5225-52. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:73 … -
Effect of Work-related Mobility in the Simulation of Aerosol Anthrax Releases with BARD
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An important problem in biosurveillance is the early detection and characterization of outdoor aerosol releases of B. anthracis. The Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector (BARD) is a system for simulating, detecting and characterizing such releases… read more… it takes into account the work-related mobility and to com- pare the refined simulator with the existing one. … Then we computed the number of cases and the time of ED visit for each case based on the exposure level of a … each release, we measured the change in the number of ED visits per block group produced by the two versions of the …