Operational Guide: The early warning and response systems (EWARS) for Dengue Outbreaks - ISS-G20 Laboratorium Repository

Welcome to this Operational Guide to the Early Warning and Response System (EWARS) for Dengue Outbreaks. This guide will provide you with the necessary information and tools to use and analyze surveillance data to predict dengue outbreaks.

Step-by-step instructions are detailed in the chapters below to help you: i) organize your raw data; ii) enter it into computer software; iii) run the computer software; and iv) interpret your results. Each of the steps is illustrated for better clarity and complemented by a troubleshooting section found at the end of the guide.

A technical Annex provides information on the processes and statistics used to construct the prediction model, although this will be unnecessary for all but a few advanced users who want to understand the original source code.

Finally, it is most important that the data you have collected is in a format recognizable by the statistical software package, Stata*. The first chapter walks you through a process of data cleaning and transformation to ensure that this will be the case.

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