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Table 3 Evaluation metrics for the threshold-based epidemic detection methods where alarms are raised when absenteeism reaches 10%. Missing observations were not treated

From: Methods for detecting seasonal influenza epidemics using a school absenteeism surveillance system

Data Type

FAR

ADD

ES-top

0.799

37.75

ES-3avg

0.685

60.89

ES-allavg

0.722

70.33

SS-top

1.00

93.71

SS-3avg

0.664

28.88

SS-allavg

0.661

28.75

ES.SS-allavg

0.889

78.33

  1. See Table 2 for aggregation abbreviations