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Real-time Flu Forecasting Proves Successful in Large-scale Test
Posted December 3rd, 2013
A flu forecasting system that uses some of the same techniques as modern weather forecasting was not only able to predict the timing of the 2012-2013 influenza season, but was able to do so nine weeks before the flu season peaked.
Columbia University researchers say there were able to correctly predict that flu activity in the southeastern United States would peak in December 2012, and that the rest of nation wouldn?t see its flu season crest until the first weeks of 2013...
Real-time Flu Forecasting Proves Successful in Large-scale Test
Posted December 3rd, 2013
A flu forecasting system that uses some of the same techniques as modern weather forecasting was not only able to predict the timing of the 2012-2013 influenza season, but was able to do so nine weeks before the flu season peaked.
Columbia University researchers say there were able to correctly predict that flu activity in the southeastern United States would peak in December 2012, and that the rest of nation wouldn?t see its flu season crest until the first weeks of 2013...