TY - JOUR AU - Elbert, Yevgeniy AU - Hung, Vivian AU - Burkom, Howard PY - 2013/03/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Category-Specific Comparison of Univariate Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance Decision Support JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Oral Presentations: Temporal or Spatio-temporal DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4411 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/4411 SP - AB - We compared detection performance of univariate alerting methods on real and simulated events in different types of biosurveillance data. Both kinds of detection performance analysis showed the method based on Holt-Winters exponential smoothing superior on non-sparse time series with day-of-week effects. The adaptive CUSUM and Shewhart methods proved optimal on sparse data and data without weekly patterns. ER -