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Disease Surveillance: Case Study

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Synonyms

Biosurveillance; Event detection; Graph mining; Scan statistics; Spatial scan statistic.

Glossary

Event Detection:

Identifying patterns of interest in large temporal datasets

Spatial Scan Statistic:

A method for identifying hotspots in spatial data, widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance

Scoring Function:

An objective function that measures the anomalousness of a subset of data

LTSS:

Linear-time subset scanning

Time to Detect:

Evaluation metric; time delay before detecting an event

Overlap:

Evaluation metric; accuracy of detected subsets of data

Detection Power:

Evaluation metric; proportion of detected events

Definition

GraphScan is a novel method for detecting arbitrarily shaped connected clusters in graph or network data. Given a graph structure, data observed at each node of the graph, and a score function defining the anomalousness of a set of nodes, GraphScan can efficiently and exactly identify the most anomalous (highest-scoring) connected subgraph....

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Speakman, S., Somanchi, S., McFowland III, E., Neill, D.B. (2018). Disease Surveillance: Case Study. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_283

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