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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2020

Multichart Schemes for Detecting Changes in Disease Incidence.

Gideon Mensah Engmann, Dong Han

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Gideon Mensah EngmannSchool of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240 Shanghai, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8381-3477
Dong HanSchool of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240 Shanghai, China.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several methods have been proposed in open literatures for detecting changes in disease outbreak or incidence. Most of these methods are likelihood-based as well as the direct application of Shewhart, CUSUM and EWMA schemes. We use CUSUM, EWMA and EWMA-CUSUM multi-chart schemes to detect changes in disease incidence. Multi-chart is a combination of several single charts that detects changes in a process and have been shown to have elegant properties in the sense that they are fast in detecting changes in a process as well as being computationally less expensive. Simulation results show that the multi-CUSUM chart is faster than EWMA and EWMA-CUSUM multi-charts in detecting shifts in the rate parameter. A real illustration with health data is used to demonstrate the efficiency of the schemes.

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Models, StatisticalAlgorithmsBiosurveillanceComputational BiologyComputer SimulationDisease OutbreaksGhanaHumansIncidenceLikelihood FunctionsMonte Carlo MethodPoisson DistributionPublic Health SurveillanceSentinel SurveillanceTuberculosis

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PMID32508978
PMCPMC7245694
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