Towards Identifying and Reducing the Bias of Disease Information Extracted from Search Engine Data

Da-Cang Huang; Jin-Feng Wang; Ji-Xia Huang; Daniel Z. Sui; Hong-Yan Zhang; Mao-Gui Hu; Cheng-Dong Xu

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004876

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Towards Identifying and Reducing the Bias of Disease Information Extracted from Search Engine Data

Da-Cang Huang,

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jin-Feng Wang ,

* E-mail: wangjf@Lreis.ac.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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Ji-Xia Huang,

Affiliation College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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Daniel Z. Sui,

Affiliation Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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Hong-Yan Zhang,

Affiliation School of Geographical Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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Mao-Gui Hu,

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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Cheng-Dong Xu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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Towards Identifying and Reducing the Bias of Disease Information Extracted from Search Engine Data

Da-Cang Huang,
Jin-Feng Wang,
Ji-Xia Huang,
Daniel Z. Sui,
Hong-Yan Zhang,
Mao-Gui Hu,
Cheng-Dong Xu

Published: June 6, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004876

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