BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

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Syndromic surveillance: STL for modeling, visualizing, and monitoring disease counts

Ryan P Hafen1*, David E Anderson2, William S Cleveland1, Ross Maciejewski3, David S Ebert3, Ahmad Abusalah4, Mohamed Yakout4, Mourad Ouzzani4 and Shaun J Grannis5,6

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

2 Department of Mathematics, Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

4 Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

5 Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

6 School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9:21 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-9-21

Published: 21 April 2009

Additional files

Additional file 1:

R code and documentation. contains R source code, examples, data, and documentation for carrying out the STL procedure.

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