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CDCPlot: an Application for Viewing Weekly CDC MMWR Disease Count Data
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The CDC provides data on incidences of diseases on its website (https://data.cdc.gov/). Data is available at national, regional, and state levels, and is uploaded to the CDC’s website on a weekly basis. The CDCPlot web application (available at… read more -
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Estimating Influenza Epidemic Severity
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Timely monitoring and prediction of the trajectory of seasonal influenza epidemics allows hospitals and medical centers to prepare for, and provide better service to, patients with influenza. The CDC’s ILINet system collects data on influenza-like… read more -
How to Develop a Simple Shiny App
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Recording of R-Group Meeting from February 26, 2015 - Jarad Niemi and Nick Michaud discuss how to develop a simply shiny app using R. -
Tau-leaped Particle Learning
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Development of effective policy interventions to stem disease outbreaks requires knowledge of the current state of affairs, e.g. how many individuals are currently infected, a strain’s virulence, etc, as well as our uncertainty of these values. A… read more -
Mixture Likelihood Ratio Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection
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This article describes the methodology and results of Team #134Ãs submission to the 2007 ISDS Technical Contest. -
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 -
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 -
A Tool for Interactive Disease Outbreak Visualization, Detection, and Forecasting
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Interactive tools for visualization of disease outbreaks has been improving markedly in the past few years. With the flagships Google Flutrends1 and HealthMap2 providing prime examples. These tools provide interactive access to the general public… read more