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Spatial CUSUM Chart Based Method for Rapid Detection of Outbreaks

Description

Since the release of anthrax in October of 2001, there has been increased interest in developing efficient prospective disease surveillance schemes. Poisson CUSUM is a control chart-based method that has been widely used to detect aberrations in disease counts in a single region collected over fixed time intervals. Over the past few years, different methods have been proposed to extend Poisson CUSUM charts to capture the spatial association among several regions simultaneously. In the proposed method, we extend an algorithm in industrial process control using multiple Poisson CUSUM charts to the spatial setting. The spatial association among regions is captured using the method proposed by Raubertas, which has been successfully applied in several prospective surveillance schemes. Also, to improve the power of the traditional multiple Poisson CUSUM charts, Poisson CUSUM charts were used along with fault discovery rate (FDR) control techniques.

Objective

To develop a computationally simple and fast algorithm for rapid detection of outbreaks producing easily interpretable results.

 



 

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