Prospective Spatiotemporal Cluster Detection Using SaTScan: Tutorial for Designing and Fine-Tuning a System to Detect Reportable Communicable Disease Outbreaks (Preprint)
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Staff at public health departments have few training materials to learn how to design and finetune systems to quickly detect acute, localized, community-acquired outbreaks of infectious diseases. Since 2014, the Bureau of Communicable Disease (BCD) at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has conducted daily analyses of reportable communicable diseases using SaTScan.™ SaTScan is a free software that analyzes data using scan statistics, which can detect i… Show more
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