JMIR

Online J Public Health Inform

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics

1947-2579

JMIR Publications

Toronto, Canada

v6i1e5070

10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5070

Roles of Health Literacy in Relation to Social Determinants of Health and Recommendations for Informatics-Based Interventions: Systematic Review

2014

6 1

e5070

Regression analysis is used to fit a periodic model to weekly disease counts for reportable diseases in Missouri. These trigonometric models are then used to obtain upper control limits for the number of cases that would lead to an outbreak signal. The methods, including graphics, are implemented in the open source statistical package R.