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A Comparison Of Prospective Space-Time Scan Statistics And Spatiotemporal Event Sequence Based Clustering For Covid-19 Surveillance, Fuyu Xu, Kate Beard Jun 2021

A Comparison Of Prospective Space-Time Scan Statistics And Spatiotemporal Event Sequence Based Clustering For Covid-19 Surveillance, Fuyu Xu, Kate Beard

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 disease was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Cases in the United States began appearing in late January. On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic. By mid-March COVID-19 cases were spreading across the US with several hotspots appearing by April. Health officials point to the importance of surveillance of COVID-19 to better inform decision makers at various levels and efficiently manage distribution of human and technical resources to areas of need. The prospective space-time scan statistic has been used to help identify emerging COVID-19 disease clusters, but results from …


Ehd 573 Epidemic Extra Credit Videos & Cover Email, Craig A. Mason Apr 2020

Ehd 573 Epidemic Extra Credit Videos & Cover Email, Craig A. Mason

College of Education and Human Development

Extra credit videos for the course Introduction to Education Statistics, on some of the mathematical principles involved in understanding pandemics, taught by Craig A. Mason, Professor of Education and Applied Quantitative Methods, University of Maine. Also, includes cover email from Professor Mason to the Provost Office regarding the videos.