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Non-Parametric Scan Statistics for Disease Outbreak Detection on Twitter

Non-Parametric Scan Statistics for Disease Outbreak Detection on Twitter

Non-Parametric Scan Statistics for Disease Outbreak Detection on Twitter

Authors of this article:

Feng Chen1 ;   Daniel B. Neill1
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    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.