Skip to main content
Fig. 4 | BMC Public Health

Fig. 4

From: Correcting for day of the week and public holiday effects: improving a national daily syndromic surveillance service for detecting public health threats

Fig. 4

A comparison of the current trend given by each of the smoothing methods for the severe asthma indicator from the GP in-hours syndromic surveillance system. This graph displays the data that is available 1 week after a Monday public holiday (public holidays indicated by grey vertical lines). A smoothing method would be used to display the current trend (the area of interest inside the red box). Both the seven-day and working day moving averages show a currently increasing trend. The extended working day moving average and, importantly, the data do not

Back to article page

BMC Public Health

ISSN: 1471-2458

Contact us