Aberration Detection in R Illustrated by Danish Mortality Monitoring

The objective of biosurveillance in this chapter is the detection of emerging incidence clusters in time of a health-related event. Reviews on temporal surveillance can be found, for example, in Sonesson and Bock (2003), Bravata et al. (2004), Buckeridge et al. (2005), and Tennant et al. (2007). In recent years, a pleasant development has been a synthesis of surveillance methods with methods from statistical process control (see, for example, Woodall (2006) for a survey).