Improving the performance of outbreak detection algorithms by classifying the levels of disease incidence.

We evaluated a novel strategy to improve the performance of outbreak detection algorithms, namely setting the alerting threshold separately in each region according to the disease incidence in that region. By using data on hand, foot and mouth disease in Shandong province, China, we evaluated the im...

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Main Authors: Honglong Zhang, Shengjie Lai, Liping Wang, Dan Zhao, Dinglun Zhou, Yajia Lan, David L Buckeridge, Zhongjie Li, Weizhong Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3747136?pdf=render