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Comparison of the US outpatient influenza-like illness surveillance network and the Google Flu Trends from 2008 to 2010
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http://Google.org developed a regression model that used the volume of influenza-related search queries best correlated with the proportion of outpatient visits related to influenza-like illness (ILI) model to estimate the level of ILI… read more… from Google Flu Trends are publicly available through the website. The time period for evaluation was parsed according … as zero. Results From October 2008 through April 2010, all national and regional ILI percentage estimates reported … -
Web Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: a New Model for Dengue Surveillance
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With an estimated 500 million people infected each year, dengue ranks as one of the most significant mosquito-borne viral human diseases, and one of the most rapidly emerging vectorborne diseases. A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and… read more… the overall dataset and a holdout subset of the data. All search queries were fully anonymized. This methodology … internet searches for influenza surveillance. Clin Infect Dis. 2008;47:1443� 8. 5. Choi H, Varian H. Predicting the …