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- Title
EPIPOI: a user-friendly analytical tool for the extraction and visualization of temporal parameters from epidemiological time series.
- Authors
Alonso, Wladimir J; McCormick, Benjamin J J
- Abstract
There is an increasing need for processing and understanding relevant information generated by the systematic collection of public health data over time. However, the analysis of those time series usually requires advanced modeling techniques, which are not necessarily mastered by staff, technicians and researchers working on public health and epidemiology. Here a user-friendly tool, EPIPOI, is presented that facilitates the exploration and extraction of parameters describing trends, seasonality and anomalies that characterize epidemiological processes. It also enables the inspection of those parameters across geographic regions. Although the visual exploration and extraction of relevant parameters from time series data is crucial in epidemiological research, until now it had been largely restricted to specialists.
- Publication
BMC public health, 2012, Vol 12, p982
- ISSN
1471-2458
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2458-12-982