رسالة جامعية

Anomaly Detection in Time Series: Theoretical and Practical Improvements for Disease Outbreak Detection

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Anomaly Detection in Time Series: Theoretical and Practical Improvements for Disease Outbreak Detection
المؤلفون: Lotze, Thomas Harvey
المساهمون: Shmueli, Galit, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.), Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation
سنة النشر: 2009
مصطلحات موضوعية: Statistics, Biology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, anomaly detection, biosurveillance, control charts, epidemiology, forecasting, time series, stat, geo
الوصف: The automatic collection and increasing availability of health data provides a new opportunity for techniques to monitor this information. By monitoring pre-diagnostic data sources, such as over-the-counter cough medicine sales or emergency room chief complaints of cough, there exists the potential to detect disease outbreaks earlier than traditional laboratory disease confirmation results. This research is particularly important for a modern, highly-connected society, where the onset of disease outbreak can be swift and deadly, whether caused by a naturally occurring global pandemic such as swine flu or a targeted act of bioterrorism. In this dissertation, we first describe the problem and current state of research in disease outbreak detection, then provide four main additions to the field. First, we formalize a framework for analyzing health series data and detecting anomalies: using forecasting methods to predict the next day's value, subtracting the forecast to create residuals, and finally using detection algorithms on the residuals. The formalized framework indicates the link between the forecast accuracy of the forecast method and the performance of the detector, and can be used to quantify and analyze the performance of a variety of heuristic methods. Second, we describe improvements for the forecasting of health data series. The application of weather as a predictor, cross-series covariates, and ensemble forecasting each provide improvements to forecasting health data. Third, we describe improvements for detection. This includes the use of multivariate statistics for anomaly detection and additional day-of-week preprocessing to aid detection. Most significantly, we also provide a new method, based on the CuScore, for optimizing detection when the impact of the disease outbreak is known. This method can provide an optimal detector for rapid detection, or for probability of detection within a certain timeframe. Finally, we describe a method for improved comparison of detection methods. We provide tools .
نوع الوثيقة: thesis
اللغة: unknown
العلاقة: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9857Test
الإتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9857Test
حقوق: undefined
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.D0DB042A
قاعدة البيانات: BASE