Some Methodological Issues in Biosurveillance

This paper briefly summarizes a short course I gave at the 12th Biennial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Symposium held in Decatur, Georgia on April 6, 2009. The goal of this short course was to discuss various methodological issues of biosurveillance detection algorithms, with a focus on the issues related to developing, evaluating, and implementing such algorithms.

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with commentaries [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] and rejoinder), Statistics in Medicine, 30, 403-441.

The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.3880

The PowerPoint slides from the complete talk can be accessed at http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/Biosurveillance.htm

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