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Detecting Previously Unseen Outbreaks with Novel Symptom Patterns
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Commonly used syndromic surveillance methods based on the spatial scan statistic first classify disease cases into broad, pre-existing symptom categories ("prodromes") such as respiratory or fever, then detect spatial clusters where the recent… read more… the outbreak based on the detected topic (e.g., top keywords for ICD-9 code 569.3 were ‘rectal’, ‘bleed’, … ‘green’, ‘nose’, ‘nasal’, etc.), while the static method did not, since the outbreak did not correspond to any of the … M. A spatial scan statistic. Commun Stat Theor Meth. 1997;26:1481�96. 2. Blei D, Ng A, Jordan M. Latent Dirichlet …