TY - JOUR AU - Chen, Feng AU - Neill, Daniel B. PY - 2014/03/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Non-Parametric Scan Statistics for Disease Outbreak Detection on Twitter JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Oral Presentations DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5137 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/5137 SP - AB - We present a new method for disease outbreak detection, the "Non-Parametric Heterogeneous Graph Scan (NPHGS)". NPHGS enables fast and accurate detection of emerging space-time clusters using Twitter and other social media streams where standard parametric model assumptions are incorrect. ER -