Applying cusum-based methods for the detection of outbreaks of Ross River virus disease in Western Australia

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Rochelle E Watkins¹ , Serryn Eagleson² , Bert Veenendaal² , Graeme Wright² and Aileen J Plant¹

¹Australian Biosecurity CRC, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

²Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8:37doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-37


Published:	13 August 2008

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R code for Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) and negative binomial cusum (NBC) algorithms.

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RRv case notifications, expert-defined outbreak period and cusum scores by day for outbreak datasets 2 to 15.

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