TY - JOUR AU - Jackson, Michael L. AU - Baer, Atar AU - Painter, Ian AU - Duchin, Jeff PY - 2007 DA - 2007/03/01 TI - A simulation study comparing aberration detection algorithms for syndromic surveillance JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 6 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - The usefulness of syndromic surveillance for early outbreak detection depends in part on effective statistical aberration detection. However, few published studies have compared different detection algorithms on identical data. In the largest simulation study conducted to date, we compared the performance of six aberration detection algorithms on simulated outbreaks superimposed on authentic syndromic surveillance data. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-7-6 DO - 10.1186/1472-6947-7-6 ID - Jackson2007 ER -