TY - JOUR AU - Jafarpour, Nastaran AU - Precup, Doina AU - Buckeridge, David PY - 2013/03/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Determinants of Outbreak Detection Performance JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Oral Presentations: Temporal or Spatio-temporal DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4401 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/4401 SP - AB - The choice of outbreak detection algorithm and its configuration result in variations in the performance of public health surveillance systems. The ability of predicting the performance of detection algorithms under different circumstances will guide the method selection and algorithm configuration. Our work characterizes the dependence of the detection performance on the type and severity of outbreak. We examined the influence of determinants on the performance of C-algorithms and W-algorithms. We used Bayesian Networks to model relationships between determinants and the performance. The results on a sophisticated simulated data set show that algorithm performance can be predicted well using this methodology. ER -