title: Some methodological issues in biosurveillance.
abstract: This paper briefly summarizes a short course I gave at the 12th Biennial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Symposium held in Decatur, Georgia on April 6, 2009. The goal of this short course was to discuss various methodological issues of biosurveillance detection algorithms, with a focus on the issues related to developing, evaluating, and implementing such algorithms.
authors.affiliation: Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA. rdfricker@nps.edu
authors.forename: Ronald D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Fricker
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D056808:Biostatistics / Q000379:methods*; D055877:Biosurveillance / Q000379:methods*; D023482:Bioterrorism; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D009874:Operations Research; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D011336:Probability; D011786:Quality Control; D013598:Systems Theory