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Learning Outbreak Regions for Bayesian Spatial Biosurveillance
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This work incorporates model learning into a Bayesian framework for outbreak detection. Our method learns the spatial characteristics of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with… read more… of emerging events by combining evidence from mul- tiple data streams. Given a set of space-time regions … outbreaks injected into real-world Emergency Department visit data from Allegheny County, PA. In the simulations …