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Stoto, M.A. et al. (2006). Evaluating Statistical Methods for Syndromic Surveillance. In: Wilson, A.G., Wilson, G.D., Olwell, D.H. (eds) Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-35209-0_9

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