A Bayesian approach for detecting a disease that is not being modeled

• John M. Aronis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Aronis, Gregory F. Cooper

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jma18@pitt.edu

  Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5821-3672

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• Jeffrey P. Ferraro ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Per H. Gesteland ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Fuchiang Tsui ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Ye Ye ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Michael M. Wagner ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Gregory F. Cooper

  Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Aronis, Gregory F. Cooper

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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