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  • 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
    … Zimbabwe epidemiological bulletin number 89. http://www.who.int/entity/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/zwe_ … Zimbabwe cholera epidemiological bulletin archive. http://www.who.int/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/epi_archive/ … Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R- project.org/. 4. Lewin-Koh NJ, Bivand R. maptools: …
  • 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
    … M Ludkovski.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4141 Conclusion We have built novel … Threats Journal J Niemi and M Ludkovski. 2011, 4:s44 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 4242 …
  • 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.
    … (both before and after an outbreak) than if we only con- sidered nonspecific deviations from the “in-control” …