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  • Mixture Likelihood Ratio Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection

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    This article describes the methodology and results of Team #134ís submission to the 2007 ISDS Technical Contest.
    … injected into three data sources (emergency department visits (ED), over-the-counter anti-diarrheal and …
  • Optimal sequential management decisions for influenza outbreaks

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    Management policies for influenza outbreaks balance the expected morbidity and mortality costs versus the cost of intervention policies under outbreak parameter uncertainty. Previous approaches have not updated parameter estimates as data arrives… read more
    … of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA E-mail: niemi@pstat.ucsb.edu Objective This abstract …
  • Optimal sequential management decisions for measles outbreaks

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    Optimal sequential management of disease outbreaks has been shown to dramatically improve the realized outbreak costs when the number of newly infected and recovered individuals is assumed to be known (1,2). This assumption has been relaxed so that… read more
    … RR, Himmelspach J, White KP, Fu M, eds. *Jarad Niemi E-mail: niemi@iastate.edu (page number not for citation …
  • An exploratory analysis of the 2010 measles outbreak in Zimbabwe

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    This report describes an exploratory analysis of the 2009-2010 Zimbabwe measles outbreak based on data publicly available in the World Health Organization's Zimbabwe cholera epidemiological bulletin archive. As of December 12th 2010, the outbreak… read more
    … package�maptools; 2011. *Jarad Niemi E-mail: niemi@iastate.edu (page number not for citation …