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Traveling Epidemic Waves in Biosurveillance Data: Identifying Early Hotspots of Respiratory Illness
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We have previously shown that timeliness of detection is influenced both by the data source (e.g., ambulatory vs. emergency department) and demographic characteristics of patient populations (e.g., age). Because epidemic waves are thought to… read more… analysis was used to find the estimated phase shift (i.e., lag or lead time) between the underlying yearly …