Volume 10, Number 7—July 2004

Research

Alert Threshold Algorithms and Malaria Epidemic Detection

Hailay Desta Teklehaimanot*, Joel Schwartz*, Awash Teklehaimanot†, and Marc Lipsitch*

Author affiliations: *Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

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Figure 1. Method for calculating potentially preventable cases (PPC) by using weekly mean. PPC is obtained from cases in excess of the weekly mean with an 8-week window.

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