What is it about?

There are apparently bizarre patterns in deaths and medical admissions which have not been explained. This paper shows how small-area outbreaks can aggregate together to generate the bizarre patterns seen at local authority and national level.

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Why is it important?

Unless you understand patterns of disease outbreak you will not progress to isolate the infectious agent

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Part of a wider series of small-area studies looking at outbreaks of a new type of infectious immune disease, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf

Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting

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This page is a summary of: Simulated rectangular wave infectious-like events replicate the diversity of time-profiles observed in real-world running 12 month totals of admissions or deaths, Fractal Geometry and Nonlinear Analysis in Medicine and Biology, January 2016, Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.15761/fgnamb.1000114.
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