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Epidemiological methods and statistics

Evaluating and implementing temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal methods for outbreak detection in a local syndromic surveillance system

Robert W. Mathes, Ramona Lall, Alison Levin-Rector, Jessica Sell, Marc Paladini, Kevin J. Konty, Don Olson, Don Weiss

published 08 Sep 2017

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Radon-induced lung cancer deaths may be overestimated due to failure to account for confounding by exposure to diesel engine exhaust in BEIR VI miner studies

Xiaodong Cao, Piers MacNaughton, Jose Cedeno Laurent, Joseph G. Allen

published 08 Sep 2017

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Optimizing the maximum reported cluster size in the spatial scan statistic for ordinal data

Sehwi Kim, Inkyung Jung

published 28 Jul 2017

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Exploring spatial patterns of sudden cardiac arrests in the city of Toronto using Poisson kriging and Hot Spot analyses

Raymond Przybysz, Martin Bunch

published 03 Jul 2017

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Statistical methods used in the public health literature and implications for training of public health professionals

Matthew J. Hayat, Amanda Powell, Tessa Johnson, Betsy L. Cadwell

published 07 Jun 2017

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Predicting epidemic evolution on contact networks from partial observations

Jacopo Bindi, Alfredo Braunstein, Luca Dall’Asta

published 26 Apr 2017

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Automated detection of hospital outbreaks: A systematic review of methods

Brice Leclère, David L. Buckeridge, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Pascal Astagneau, Didier Lepelletier

published 25 Apr 2017

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Evaluation of the Gini Coefficient in Spatial Scan Statistics for Detecting Irregularly Shaped Clusters

Jiyu Kim, Inkyung Jung

published 27 Jan 2017

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The Characteristics of TB Epidemic and TB/HIV Co-Infection Epidemic: A 2007–2013 Retrospective Study in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, China

Wang Wei, Zhang Wei-Sheng, Alayi Ahan, Yan Ci, Zhang Wei-Wen, Cao Ming-Qin

published 21 Oct 2016

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Predicting Subnational Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic Dynamics from Sociodemographic Indicators

Linda Valeri, Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Yared Gurmu, Akweley Ablorh, Jennifer Bobb, F. William Townes, Guy Harling

published 12 Oct 2016

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Capture-Recapture Estimators in Epidemiology with Applications to Pertussis and Pneumococcal Invasive Disease Surveillance

Toon Braeye, Jan Verheagen, Annick Mignon, Wim Flipse, Denis Pierard, Kris Huygen, Carole Schirvel, Niel Hens

published 16 Aug 2016

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The Role of Node Heterogeneity in the Coupled Spreading of Epidemics and Awareness

Quantong Guo, Yanjun Lei, Chengyi Xia, Lu Guo, Xin Jiang, Zhiming Zheng

published 12 Aug 2016

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Reliability and Validity of the Anterior Knee Pain Scale: Applications for Use as an Epidemiologic Screener

Richard F. Ittenbach, Guixia Huang, Kim D. Barber Foss, Timothy E. Hewett, Gregory D. Myer

published 21 Jul 2016

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