The main goal of biosurveillance is the early detection of disease outbreaks. Advances in technology have allowed the collection, transfer, and storage of pre-diagnostic information in addition to traditional diagnostic data. Such data carry the potential of an earlier outbreak signature. In...

We define the concept of Information Quality (InfoQ) as the potential of a dataset to achieve a specific (scientific or practical) goal using a given empirical analysis method. InfoQ is different from data quality and analysis quality, but is dependent on these components and on the relationship...

The term quality of statistical data, developed and used in official statistics and international organizations such as the IMF and the OECD, refers to the usefulness of summary statistics generated by producers of official statistics. Similarly, in the context of survey quality, official...

We define the concept of Information Quality (InfoQ) as the potential of a dataset to achieve a specific (scientific or practical) goal using a given empirical analysis method. InfoQ is different from data quality and analysis quality, but is dependent on these components and on the relationship...