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SUBMITTER: Yang W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4352784 | biostudies-other | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Yang Wan W Lipsitch Marc M Shaman Jeffrey J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150217 9
The inference of key infectious disease epidemiological parameters is critical for characterizing disease spread and devising prevention and containment measures. The recent emergence of surveillance records mined from big data such as health-related online queries and social media, as well as model inference methods, permits the development of new methodologies for more comprehensive estimation of these parameters. We use such data in conjunction with Bayesian inference methods to study the tra ...[more]