Introduction to Statistical Methods for Biosurveillance: With an Emphasis on Syndromic Surveillance
Author:   Ronald D. Fricker (Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9780521191340


Pages:   411
Publication Date:   25 February 2013
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Introduction to Statistical Methods for Biosurveillance: With an Emphasis on Syndromic Surveillance


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Author:   Ronald D. Fricker (Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9780521191340


ISBN 10:   0521191343
Pages:   411
Publication Date:   25 February 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction to Biosurveillance: 1. Overview; 2. Biosurveillance data; Part II. Situational Awareness: 3. Situational awareness for biosurveillance; 4. Descriptive statistics for displaying the situation; 5. Statistical models for evaluating the situation; Part III. Early Event Detection: 6. Design and performance evaluation; 7. Univariate temporal methods; 8. Multivariate temporal methods; 9. Spatio-temporal methods; Part IV. Putting It All Together: 10. Simulating biosurveillance data; 11. Applying the temporal methods to real data; 12. Comparing methods to better understand and improve; 13. Frontiers, open questions, and future research.

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Ronald D. Fricker, Jr is an Associate Professor of Operations Research and the Associate Chair for Research at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). Prior to joining NPS, Dr Fricker was a Senior Statistician at the RAND Corporation and the Associate Director of the National Security Research Division. Published widely in leading professional journals, he is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, and a former chair of the ASA Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security. He is a contributing editor to Interfaces and is on the editorial boards of Statistics, Politics, and Policy and the International Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology. Fricker's current research is focused on studying the performance of various statistical methods for use in biosurveillance, particularly syndromic surveillance, and statistical process control methodologies more generally.

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