EPIDEM: Stata module providing suite of tools to detect outbreaks from surveillance data

Leonelo Bautista ()
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Leonelo Bautista: University of Wisconsin at Madison

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: epidem is a wrapper that provides a unified entry point for related tools: epidem channel – calls channel to construct the endemic channel using the average number of cases and its lower and upper historical limits in the corresponding week and adjacent weeks from previous (reference) years as cut points, and classifies each week as Baseline, Alarm, Alert, or Epidemic. epidem rregmm – calls rregmm to classify weeks in the evaluation year yeval using robust MM regression fitted to data from the ryspan preceding years. epidem ppvalue – calls ppvalue to estimate, for a user-selected week and year, the posterior probability of a progressive increase in cases over the next two weeks.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 10 and robreg from SSC (q.v.)
Keywords: epidemiology; surveillance; epidemic; prevalence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-11-04
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install epidem". The module is made available under terms of the MIT license (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/epidem.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/epidem.sthlp
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/ppvalue.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/rregmm.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/channel.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/d/dengue_rd8.dta
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/epidem_examples.do

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