Improving the Performance of Outbreak Detection Algorithms by Classifying the Levels of Disease Incidence

• Honglong Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Honglong Zhang, Shengjie Lai

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Division of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Shengjie Lai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Honglong Zhang, Shengjie Lai

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Division of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Liping Wang,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Division of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Dan Zhao,

  Affiliation Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Dinglun Zhou,

  Affiliation West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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• Yajia Lan,

  Affiliation West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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• David L. Buckeridge,

  Affiliation Surveillance Lab, McGill Clinical and Health Informatics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Zhongjie Li ,

  * E-mail: lizj@chinacdc.cn (ZL); yangwz@chinacdc.cn (WY)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Division of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Weizhong Yang

  * E-mail: lizj@chinacdc.cn (ZL); yangwz@chinacdc.cn (WY)

  Affiliation Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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