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Data Integration and Analytics within the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System
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This presentation introduces the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Bio-Surveillance Integration System (NBIS) and the analytics functionality within the NBIS that integrates and analyzes structured and unstructured data streams… read more… likeli- hood of an outbreak given a series of potentially un- true denial statements in the chain of denial corpus. … -
Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines
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The eleven syndrome classifications for clinical data records monitored by BioSense include rare events such as death or lymphadenitis and also common occurrences such as respiratory infections. BioSense currently uses two statistical methods for… read more… models: day-of-week, holiday, total daily health facility visits, and a trend variable (date). Models using different … data for this paper consisted of daily military clinical visit count data from the Department of Defense (DoD) for … of 28, 56, and 112 days were used to make one-day-ahead visit count predictions. For each forecast, the baseline …