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This study also demonstrates the effectiveness of artificial outbreak data in comparing and evaluating outbreak detection methods.

Outbreaks were combined with the simulated ILI background by adding the case counts from the artificial outbreak to the appropriate zip code case count on the appropriate day.

This artificial outbreak was meant to simulate a small concentrated outbreak of influenza-like illness and was based on experience from the Massachusetts Department of Health.

Cases from the synthetic population and from the artificial outbreak were assigned a geographic location based on the centroid of their home zip code.

Since outbreaks might occur at any time of year, the artificial outbreak being tested was added to each sample at a randomly selected start date in 2009.

Twelve artificial outbreaks were inserted in each.

To test the performance of the different surveillance systems, artificial outbreaks were randomly inserted into the simulated ILI background signals.

We evaluate this synoptic-scale outbreak method using the historical data for baselines and adding artificial outbreaks, as has been done in other research [ 24, 25].

In this context, Diggle et al. [ 20] use spatio-temporal Cox models to identify anomalies (real and artificial outbreaks) in the space-time distribution of gastrointestinal infections.

Using EMERGE, test beds could be synthesized, creating EMRs for both background records and artificial outbreaks or emergencies that are not present in the real data.

For evaluation, we insert artificial outbreaks into the synthetic surveillance data streams at different locations and times and measure the performance of an outbreak detection protocol based on scan statistics.